Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh of wire, generally used for making fences. It is made of thin, flexible galvanized wire, with hexagonal gaps of 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) diameter, though chicken wire with smaller gaps is also available.

Chicken wire is also used as a matrix to hold cement or plaster, in a process known as stuccoing.

Psychologist Harry Harlow 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.

In chemistry, molecules with fused carbon rings are often compared to chicken wire. See Chicken wire (chemistry).

In photonics, 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 sensor. The lines have a pattern similar to that of chicken wire.

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