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IN a recent communication1 with the above title, Davies and Phillipoff have described X-ray diffraction experiments with multilayers of lead stearate on chrome-plated brass, which they interpret as deciding certain controversies regarding the micellar structure of soap solutions and the X-ray diffraction patterns from such solutions. Actually, it appears that their experiments have little bearing upon the soap solution results, because they differ in at least three important ways from the situation in real soap solutions.
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HUGHES, E. A Test of the Interpretation of X-Ray Patterns of Micelles. Nature 165, 1017 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/1651017a0
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