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ON the cubical atom theory developed by Lewis and Langmuir it appears that the molecules of CO2 and N2O have almost identical electron configurations. A. O. Rankine has shown from viscosity data that each electron system is equivalent to that of three adjoining neon atoms in line. The writer is not aware that attention has been directed to the fact that the specific susceptibilities of gaseous CO2, and N2O are —0.423×10—6 and −0.429×10—6 (Také Soné, Science Reports, Tôhoku, vol. viii., p. 162, 1919, and Proc. Phys. and Math. Soc. Japan, vol. ii., p. 84, 1920) and their molecular susceptibilities −18.6×10−6 and −18.8×10—6 respectively.
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OXLEY, A. Magnetism and Atomic Structure. Nature 107, 652 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107652c0
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