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THE many facets of the jewel of truth are only too often exposed in a sequence that is bewildering but, even so, it is not often that succeeding facets reflect such dissimilar beams as at first sight to seem to demand the ascription of conflicting virtues to the body of the jewel behind. Sir William Bragg, giving the James Forrest Lecture last year, dealt with the orderly arrangement of the atoms within crystals: Sir Frank Smith, the lecturer for this year, was concerned to demonstrate how the disorderly or random nature of the molecular motions within a substance make it possible for chemical actions on one hand, and the refrigeration industry on the other hand, to exist.
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W., H. Disorderly Molecules and Refrigerating Engineering*. Nature 141, 897–898 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141897a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141897a0