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SINCE it is necessary to maintain the electron camera used in electron diffraction studies in a state of high vacuum, the investigation of solutions is in general very difficult. However, the desiccation of hygroscopic substances like zinc chloride does not take place very rapidly even in high vacua of the order of 10-6˜-8 mm. mercury; as a matter of fact, the thin films of such substances give diffraction haloes as well as diffraction rings (see photographs). The purpose of this study is the determination of the inner structure of amorphous films of very concentrated solutions through the diffraction patterns obtained.
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YAMAGUCHI, S. Study of Amorphous Films by Electron Diffraction. Nature 146, 333 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146333b0
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