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Which way would you expect this newspaper to twist? Right or left?

Which way would you expect this newspaper to  twist? Right or left?

Newsprint is made from wood fibres at over 1000 metres per minute. The fibres tend to point along the sheet, rather than across the sheet. Broadsheet newspapers such as the Montreal Gazette and Pravda are printed top to bottom along the sheet, but tabloids such as le Journal de Montreal are printed across the sheet. Because of the tendency of fibres to twist as they dry, regular broadsheet newspapers twist to the right and tabloids twist to the left, independent of the editorial policies of the newspapers.
["Chiral Twisting Curl in Newsprint Sheets", I. Dionne, R.S. Werbowyj and D.G. Gray, J. Pulp Paper Sci., 17, J123-J127 (1991)]


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