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RECENTLY it has been shown1 that the maximum rate of evaporation of liquid carbon tetrachloride measured experimentally agrees to within the error of experiment with that deduced from the Knudsen equation In this equation, T is the temperature of the evaporating surface and P the saturated pressure of the vapour at that temperature, m is the mass in grams evaporating per second, and M the molecular weight of the liquid.
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Alty and Nicoll, Canadian Journal of Research, 4, 547 ; 1931.
Alty, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 131, 554; 1931.
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ALTY, T. Application of Knudsen's Law to the Evaporation of Water. Nature 130, 167–168 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130167a0
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