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Hedestrand1, Rideal2 and Langmuir3 have shown that unimolecular films generally do not reduce evaporation from water surfaces into air to an appreciable extent, the reason being that the evaporation resistance (the reciprocal of the evaporation rate) of unimolecular films is of the same order as the evaporation resistance due to collisions of the evaporating molecules with air molecules and subsequent deflection to the water surface. The only exception is cetyl alcohol, which shows appreciable reduction; we found that octadecyl alcohol behaves similarly to cetyl alcohol.
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Hedestrand, G., J. Phys. Chem., 28, 1244 (1924).
Rideal, E. K., J. Phys. Chem., 29, 1585 (1929).
Langmuir, L., and Langmuir, D. B., J. Phys. Chem., 31, 1719 (1927).
Sebba, F., and Briscoe, H. V. A., J. Chem Soc., 106 (1940).
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DOCKING, A., HEYMANN, E., KERLEY, L. et al. Evaporation of Water through Multimolecular Films. Nature 146, 265 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146265a0
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