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

— Irving Langmuir

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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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