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THE theory of cohesion put forward by Dr. Herbert Chatley in NATURE óf August 18 is logically based on those of other investigators, and, consequently, does not involve any new element. In all these theories cohesion is made to depend on centrally directed forces which follow either the inverse square law of gravitation or electrical attraction, or that of some other inverse power higher than the second. Dr. Chatley says: “It is difficult to conceive of one force having all these properties, but perfectly simple to imagine an attraction and repulsion combined that will do so, provided that the attraction decreases more slowly with separation than the repulsion.” He takes the ground that the force of cohesion as stated by him is related to those following the inverse square law, and that the question of the relation between them is of great importance.
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TAYLOR, W. Cohesion. Nature 109, 10–11 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109010a0
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