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'Wall Paper Peeling Mystery' Explained By Physicists

sciencedaily.com — When you try to remove adhesive paper from a surface, you inevitably get a pointy flap, while what you want is to remove the entire piece. A team from the Laboratoire de physique et m écanique des milieux hétérogènes , collaborating with the University of Santiago in Chile and with MIT, has explained the physics has explained the physics behind this

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