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Science Daily | May 13, 2008

Weve all been faced with the famous pointy flap tear: the piece being detached gets thinner and thinner as it is being pulled off, and ends up as a pointy flap instead of coming off as a whole piece of tape, wallpaper, film, fruit peel... What causes the pointy shape? Why do the two edges seem to at...

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