The property of an ink whereby it can be stretched out into a long thread without breaking. Long inks have good flow in the fountain. (Printing ink manual, 5th edn. Leach RH, Pierce RJ, Hickman EP, Mackenzie MJ, Smith HG (eds), Blueprint, New York, 1993)
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Length. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_6869
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