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The Influence of the Degree of Instability on the Phenomena of Round Liquid Columns

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THE instability of round liquid jets was noticed and described by Savart,2 Magnus,3 Plateau,4 and others. The criterion of instability was given by Plateau as where is the “wave-length,” measured along a portion of the jet where the diameter is d. Or, in words, the jet is unstable when the wave-length is greater than the circumference.

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  1. Published by permission of the Director of the Bureau of Standards of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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CASTLEMAN, R. The Influence of the Degree of Instability on the Phenomena of Round Liquid Columns. Nature 114, 857–858 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114857a0

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