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Letter: Letters : Suck on this

Published 13 September 1997

From F. G. Grisley

Barry, Glamorgan

Your feature “Eaten alive”
(26 July, p 30) states that mosquitoes can create
suction differentials of “between 1 and 2 atmospheres”. Do they know something
we don’t?

From 0 to –14.7 pounds per square inch is Nobel Prize territory!

Issue no. 2099 published 13 September 1997

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