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I HAVE recently reported some experiments on the exchange of stearic acid molecules and potassium ions between mica surfaces brought into contact and emphasized the importance of these phenomena in lubrication1. I wish now to describe some further results of these experiments, and discuss their significance in terms of the motions which long-chain polar molecules in mono-molecular layers on solid surfaces may undergo.
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GAINES, G. Overturning of Stearic Acid Molecules in Monolayers. Nature 186, 384–385 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186384a0
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