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IT has long been a mystery why a few liquids, such as solutions of soap and saponine, should stand so far in advance of others in regard to their capability of extension into large and tolerably durable laminæ. The subject was specially considered by Plateau in his valuable researches, but with results which cannot be regarded as wholly satisfactory. In his view the question is one of the ratio between capillary tension and superficial viscosity. Some of the facts adduced certainly favour a connection between the phenomena attributed to the latter property and capability of extension; but the “superficial viscosity” is not clearly defined, and itself stands in need of explanation.
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A Paper read by Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S., before the Royal Society, on March 6.
Poggendorft's Annalen, vol. cxliii., 1871, p. 342. The original pamphlet dates from 1865.
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On the Tension of Recently Formed Liquid Surfaces1. Nature 41, 566–568 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041566a0
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