Mechanics and Morphology of Silk Drawn from Anesthetized Spiders

 CO₂ and N₂ anesthetized Nephila spiders produced dragline silk with mechanical properties that differed from control silk as a function of time under anesthesia. Silk from CO₂ spiders had a significantly lower breaking strain and breaking energy, significantly higher initial modulus, and marginally lower breaking stress. At the onset of anesthesia the silk diameter became highly variable. During deep anesthesia silk either became thinner or retained cross-section but fibrillated. Received: 26 August 1999 / Accepted in revised form: 22 December 1999     

“华夏古陆”考异

自葛利普创名“华夏古陆”以来,经过半个多世纪的论辩与考订,对其地质构造属性,至今仍然否定与肯定交迭起伏,莫衷一是,本文从推覆构造,陆地漂移等实际资料着手,加以论证,认为它是经历深刻改造和发生巨大位移的变质岩断片体,地质构造属性已非“华夏古陆”原义。