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  1. Gore-Tex valve stem packing also has a large negative Poisson’s ratio. You pull on a length of the stuff and it visibly thickens, compress and it thins. It is not a fully connected solid but rather a severely kinked interpenetrating fibril weave at micron scales. When you pull the ends the kinks unfold outward increasing void space.

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