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FOLLOWING preliminary experiments performed more than two years ago, I have now arranged an optical lever of precision, giving very large magnification, and applied it to test (a) the accuracy with which a steel-to-steel contact will return after separation, and (b) whether the thickness of a mica sheet can be detected as varying in multiples of the molecular ‘length.’
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BOND, W. Molecular Measurements by Optical Lever. Nature 122, 169–170 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122169b0
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