torsion

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The intestinal torsion meant the dolphin’s intestines had twisted so deeply in an area that made it impossible to reach through surgery.

From Seattle Times

The researchers achieved this sensitivity using a detector called a torsion pendulum, which looks like a miniature version of a mobile hanging above a child’s crib.

From Scientific American

Their instrument is called a torsion balance: a metal disk with holes cut out of it hangs down from a fine wire, with a similar disk right below it that rotates at a constant rate.

From Scientific American

More than two centuries after Henry Cavendish devised a torsion balance to determine the constant of gravitation, metrologists have yet to agree on the constant’s precise value.Credit:

From Nature

Modern researchers hung a 50-metre-long wire inside the tower to test how it deformed under torsion — an exception to Hooke’s law describing the elastic behaviour of idealized springs.

From Nature