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THE number of possible configurations of a mixture of molecules some occupying two sites, the remainder one site, was obtained by Chang1. The corresponding number for a mixture of molecules some occupying p sites, the remainder one site, was correctly stated by Miller2 by analogy, but without proof. By using a technique considerably simpler than that used by these authors, I have been able to generalize these results to a mixture of any number of distinct types of molecules each with its own geometric properties.
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Chang, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 35, 265 (1939).
Miller, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 39, 54 (1943).
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GUGGENHEIM, E. Number of Configurations of Molecules Occupying Several Sites. Nature 153, 255 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153255b0
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