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Polymer networks with more crosslinks are stiffer, but they don't have the same freedom to deform, and they break easily when stretched.

Then, using pictures, the researchers measured the rings' positions, shapes, and points of contact with each other as the batch of rings deformed.

Following the surgery his arm has been left deformed and he sufferers from chronic pain.

"It got to the point where the cysts started growing under my skin and deforming the shape of my face, so I was put through to a dermatologist," she said.

Selt said, upon picking up his luggage having landed in Riyadh, he could see the case carrying his cue was "clearly deformed".