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Properties of Liquid Films in Fine-Pored Systems

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THE properties of liquids, and in particular of water, when held by finely porous material, are of interest to workers in both the pure and applied fields. A growing mass of evidence points to the necessity of assuming a modification in properties of such liquid films even in thicknesses corresponding with many molecular layers.

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WILSDON, B., BONNELL, D. & NOTTAGE, M. Properties of Liquid Films in Fine-Pored Systems. Nature 135, 186–187 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135186b0

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