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When cylindrical rubber rods are stretched and twisted to a sufficiently large degree, they suddenly form a sharply bent ring or ''knot'', and more knots form as the rod is twisted further. This well-known phenomenon is ascribed here to an elastic instability. As a stretched rod is twisted, the tensile stress required to maintain the stretch drops dramatically in agreement with Rivlin's theory of...