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Liquid Stars and Atomic Volume

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I CAN only adhere to my original views as to atomic diameters. Prof. Eddington tries to challenge my position by arguments based on “the usual gas model.” By this I think he means his own gas model, which is of a very special and restricted type, and by no means characteristic of the general gaseous configurations of a star. I believe his difficulties arise solely from the defects of his own model.

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JEANS, J. Liquid Stars and Atomic Volume. Nature 121, 496–497 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121496b0

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