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IN a letter under the above heading In NATURE for October 13, p. 210, Dr. R. M. Caven directs attention to the difficulty felt by chemists in accepting Dr. Langmuir's view that the sodium and chlorine in sodium chloride are not united by a chemical bond, being always ionised, although molecules of sodium chloride actually exist in a state of vapour at 2000° C. Perhaps the following considerations may help to remove the difficulty.
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BRIGGS, S. Qualities of Valency. Nature 108, 306 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108306a0
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