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Chemical Bonds:
"While tension and compression always and only coexist their respective structural behaviors differ greatly. Structural columns function most predominantly in compression of inherent limit of length to cross section, whereas tension cables or rods have no cross section diameter-to-length ratio.
"Mass attraction is always involved in bonding. There may not be atomic bonding without either electromagnetic or mass attraction: either will suffice.
“As man’s knowledge of chemical element interalloying improves it becomes apparent that critically effective mass attractive atomic proximities are intensified by symmetrical congruence. The mass attractions increase as of the second power with each halving of the distance of atomic interstices-- the length of structural tensile members, such as those of suspension bridge cables, relative to a given cross section of cable diameter, or of any given stress. The overall length trends to amplify in ever multiplying degree thus approaching infinite lengths with no cross section at all. Incredible? No!”
