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THE diamagnetic anisotropy of a large crystal of resorcinol, weighing 0.05550 gm., has been measured by methods similar to those described by Krishnan1, with the following results: a, b, c being taken in accordance with Robertson's recent renaming of these axes2, whereby a: b: c = 10.53: 9.53: 5.66 A. Resorcinol is very soluble in water and in all the usual organic solvents, and Rabi's method3 for the measurement of the absolute susceptibility in a given direction could not therefore be used. The mean susceptibility of powdered resorcinol has, however, been measured by Pascal4 and using his value, m = 67.2 × 106, we obtain a = 66.4, b = 74.2, c = 61.0 × 106.
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LONSDALE, K. Magnetic Anisotropy of Resorcinol. Nature 137, 826 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137826a0
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