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Small Drops

APR 01, 1949

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066486

John G. Kirkwood

In analyzing the kinetics of transitions between a liquid and its vapor it is important to know how the surface tension of small masses of the liquid depends upon their size and on the curvature of the boundaries separating them from the vapor from which they were formed.

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Volume 2, Number 4

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