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Irving Langmuir Quotes

1881–1957 United States

Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N.

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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

To me, [it's] extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

In general, the rate of evaporation (m) of a substance in a high vacuum is related to the pressure (p) of the saturated vapor by the equation m=\sqrt{\frac{M}{2\pi RTp. Red phosphorus and some other substances probably form exceptions to this rule.

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