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WE were pleased to see the recent communication1 by E. B. Smith and K. R. Lea on their Monte Carlo calculation for mixtures of hard-sphere molecules. We are quite interested in this problem and have been trying to approach it experimentally by studying the random packing of mixtures of real macroscopic spheres.
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MANGELSDORF, P., WASHINGTON, E. Packing of Mixtures of Hard Spheres. Nature 187, 930 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187930a0
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