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To: TASMANIANRED
"Individual strands make perfect coils. Why do some of them twist clockwise and some counter clockwise?"

The curl comes, because the cross section of each hair is D shaped more. The handedness of the curl comes from the direction the D points to at it's base, where it's planted.

105 posted on 10/02/2005 3:22:12 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets

Thank you.

Didn't know I had D shaped hairs. Knew they were very coarse and very red.


107 posted on 10/02/2005 3:42:07 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Nagin Cried, People died.)
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