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INVESTIGATIONS into the state of solution of paraffin-chain salts have usually ignored the question of the life-time of the individual aggregates (micelles)1. Their size is known to be limited, and they are in strict equilibrium with the free long-chain ions in solution2. It would appear to follow that their number fluctuates about a mean, and that the life-time of any one micelle, while small, is not capable of exact definition, especially if there is a range of sizes up to the maximum.
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NASH, T. Micelles of Long Life: a Step towards Biological Organization. Nature 180, 188–189 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180188b0
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