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CURRENT interest in the removal of films of contaminants from water by rotating cylinders has prompted an investigation of the mechanism. Remarkable effects are observed when a small cylinder is rotated in a monolayer held at constant surface pressure: (1) the monolayer is quantitatively transferred from the water surface to the cylinder; (2) fatty acid and alcohol films differ markedly in behaviour after the first layer is deposited; and (3) well defined flow patterns are produced when the cylinder is used as a surface pump for alcohol monolayers.
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RIES, H., GABOR, J. Monolayer Transfer to a Rotating Cylinder : Surface Flow Patterns. Nature 212, 917–918 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212917a0
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