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coop.]] Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh
Mesh

Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to spider web or Net in that it has many attached or woven strands....
 of wire
Wire

A wire is a single, usually cylinder , elongated string of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical Structural loads and to carry electricity and telecommunications Wiktionary:signal....
 commonly used to fence
Fence

A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent Transport across a boundary. It is generally distinguished from a wall by the lightness of its construction: a wall is usually restricted to such barriers made from solid brick or concrete, blocking vision as well as passage ....
 poultry livestock. It is made of thin, flexible galvanized wire, with hexagonal gaps. Available in 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) diameter, 2 inch (about 5 cm) and 1/2 inch (about 1.3 cm), chicken wire is available in various wire gauges usually 19 gauge (about 1 mm wire) to 22 gauge (about 0.7 mm wire).






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coop.]] Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh
Mesh

Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to spider web or Net in that it has many attached or woven strands....
 of wire
Wire

A wire is a single, usually cylinder , elongated string of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical Structural loads and to carry electricity and telecommunications Wiktionary:signal....
 commonly used to fence
Fence

A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent Transport across a boundary. It is generally distinguished from a wall by the lightness of its construction: a wall is usually restricted to such barriers made from solid brick or concrete, blocking vision as well as passage ....
 poultry livestock. It is made of thin, flexible galvanized wire, with hexagonal gaps. Available in 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) diameter, 2 inch (about 5 cm) and 1/2 inch (about 1.3 cm), chicken wire is available in various wire gauges usually 19 gauge (about 1 mm wire) to 22 gauge (about 0.7 mm wire). Chicken wire is occasionally used to build inexpensive cages for flying animals, though the zinc
Zinc

Zinc is a metallic chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a first-row transition metal of the group 12 element of the periodic table....
 content of galvanized wire makes it inappropriate for gnawing animals such as parrots.

In construction, chicken wire is used as a matrix to hold cement or plaster, in a process known as stucco
Stucco

Stucco or render is a material made of an Construction aggregate, a binder , and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid....
ing. Concrete reinforced with chicken wire yields ferrocement
Ferrocement

Ferrocement is a composite material which is used in construction or sculpting with cement, sand, water and wire or mesh material?often called a thin shell in North America....
, a versatile construction material.

It can also be used as a security measure in musical venues to protect the musicians from things being thrown, as seen in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers (film)

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 in film musical film comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch....
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Other uses

Psychologist
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
 Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow

Harry Frederick Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of tangible affection in social and cognitive development....
 used chicken wire to create "surrogate mothers" for rhesus monkeys. In experiments, the wire "mothers" tended to inspire less affection than cloth "mothers" despite being equipped with "nipples" supplying "milk."

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 claims that the animatronics puppet for E.T. "was made out of brown Play-Doh
Play-Doh

File:Play-Doh Original Canister.jpgPlay-Doh is a modelling clay used by children for art and craft projects at home and in school. Composed of flour, water, salt, and other ingredients, the product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio as a wallpaper cleaner in the years following World War II....
 and chicken wire" in a teaser trailer for the film Bee Movie
Bee Movie

Bee Movie is a 2007 Golden Globe-nominated Computer animation film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Ren?e Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, and Patrick Warburton....
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In chemistry
Chemistry

Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
, molecules with fused carbon
Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element with chemical symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalence?making four electrons available to form covalent bond chemical bonds....
 rings are often compared to chicken wire — see chicken wire (chemistry)
Chicken wire (chemistry)

File:Image-Chicken wire.jpgThe term chicken wire in chemistry is used in different contexts. Most of them relate to the similarity of the regular hexagonal patterns found in certain chemical compounds to the mesh structure commonly seen in real chicken wire....
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In photonics
Photonics

Photonics is the science of generating, controlling, and detecting photons. This is particularly done in the visible spectrum and near-infrared spectrums of the electromagnetic spectrum but may also extend to the ultraviolet , long-wave infrared , and far-infrared/THz portions of the spectrum....
, the chicken-wire effect is a predominant pattern of low transmission lines between multifiber bundles in a fiberoptic used to couple the intensifier tube to the CCD
Charge-coupled device

A charge-coupled device is an analog signal shift register that enables the transportation of analog signals through successive stages , controlled by a clock signal....
 sensor. The lines have a pattern similar to that of chicken wire.

See also

  • Chain link fencing
    Chain link fencing

    A chain-link fence or wire netting or chain-wire fence is a type of woven fence usually made from Galvanization or LLDPE-coated steel wire....
  • Welded wire
  • Oligodendroglioma
    Oligodendroglioma

    Oligodendrogliomas are a type of glioma that are believed to originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell. They occur primarily in adults but are also found in children ....
    , a brain tumor with a microscopic chicken wire pattern
  • Chicken wire (chemistry)
    Chicken wire (chemistry)

    File:Image-Chicken wire.jpgThe term chicken wire in chemistry is used in different contexts. Most of them relate to the similarity of the regular hexagonal patterns found in certain chemical compounds to the mesh structure commonly seen in real chicken wire....


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