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CRYSTALS of fatty acids and similar long chain compounds are difficult to obtain in sizes large enough to give good “single crystal” X-ray photographs. Mr. W. B. Saville has succeeded in growing fairly large and thick crystals of stearic acid. They were obtained from a saturated solution of stearic acid in carbon bisulphide.
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MULLER, A. The Structure of Stearic and Stearolic Acid. Nature 116, 45 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116045b0
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