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SIR WILLIAM BRAGG has recently suggested (Presidential Address to the Physical Society, Proc. Phys. Soc., 1921, 34, 33) that in the molecule of crystallised naphthalene the carbon atoms are arranged so that in the accompanying figure the centres of atoms at h, l, b, g, e, c lie in a plane, whilst those at k and a lie above the plane and those at f and d an equal distance below it.
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ROBINSON, R. The Atomic Vibrations in the Molecules of Benzenoid Substances. Nature 109, 476 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109476a0
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