Abstract
MONOGRAPHS on the properties of a single substance are mostly rather tedious, though often useful, affairs. Helium has, however, been for many years of special interest, as the substance of lowest boiling point, and therefore an essential tool in all techniques for the production of temperatures near the absolute zero. Now, also, helium has emerged as itself the subject of intensive investigation, being the representative—actually the only terrestrial representative—of a phenomenon which might best be termed ‘liquid degeneracy’ and which manifests itself in a number of most striking effects occurring in the last few degrees above absolute zero.
Helium
By Prof. W. H. Keesom. Pp. xx + 494. (Amsterdam, London and New York: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1942.) n.p.
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SIMON, F. Helium. Nature 160, 382–383 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160382a0
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