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DR. N. K. ADAM'S contention (NATURE, Dec. 20, 1930), that the molecules of a fatty acid on the surface of water may be held together by the mutual attraction of the ‘heads’, even when the hydrocarbon chains are in such violent agitation as to have lost all adhesive force, may be thrown into a more precise form by making use of the conception of the co-ordination of hydrogen,1 which has also been described more picturesquely as “Bigamous Hydrogen”.2 This conception serves to account for the formation of the acid fluoride ion [FHF]-, but was first applied by Pfeiffer,3 so long ago as 1913, in order to account for the lack of acidic properties in o-hydroxyanthraquinone.
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LOWRY, T. Adhesive Forces in Surface Films. Nature 127, 165 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127165b0
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