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Molecular Interruption
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Molecular Interruption

  • ARTHUR FAIRBOURNE1 

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IN reply to Mr. R. d'E. Atkinson's criticism (NATURE, March 10, p. 326) of my note on the possibility of selective molecular interruption, I should like to point out that so far from attempting to dispose of the validity of the ordinary treatment and claim the effect in question for “infinite free path,” I had already shown (NATURE, July 22, vol. 110, p. 112) the reverse to be the case, and that such an effect is not then possible.

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FAIRBOURNE, A. Molecular Interruption. Nature 112, 98 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112098b0

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