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IN making some experiments on the mixture of liquids entering into another liquid at the extremity of a tube of small diameter, a phenomenon presented itself which attracted my attention as both new and singular. A certain quantity of coloured alcohol, remaining in suspension in the centre of a body of water, assumed, by spreading gradually out, a form resembling that of a shrub having its trunk and its branches terminated by leaf-like expansions. I sought to reproduce the phenomenon, believing at first that this mode of diffusion was purely accidental; but the phenomenon always recurring very nearly in the same manner, I devised a mode of experimenting which enabled me to study it more advantageously.
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Diffusion Figures in Liquids 1 . Nature 17, 87–89 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017087a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/017087a0