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THERE is a widespread impression that Macleod was the first to discover the relation: γ = C (D−d)4 where γ is the surface tension, D the density of the liquid, d the density of the saturated vapour and C a constant independent of temperature for non-associated liquids. The equation, which Macleod1 put forward on empirical grounds in 1923, was referred to as the Macleod relation in a paper published by Sugden2 in 1924, and this designation has since been consistently adopted in the European and American literature.
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BOWDEN, S. The Macleod Equation. Nature 181, 1620 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811620c0
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