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Sedimentation and Effective Viscosity

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BEFORE I comment on Dr. Oliver's communication, I feel that an apology is due to readers for a number of errors in my communication in Nature of October 24. They made a simple derivation of equation (8) appear complicated though not, I hope, unintelligible.

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  1. Ward, S. G., J. Oil and Colour Chem. Assoc., 38 (1955).

  2. Oliver, D. R., Ph.D. thesis (Birmingham, 1954).

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KYNCH, G. Sedimentation and Effective Viscosity. Nature 185, 913–914 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185913a0

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