Year: 1922
Type: article
Abstract: X-ray photographs of certain sodium salts of the fatty acids (soap curds) show lines due to reflections from planes with very wide spacings of the order 40 A.U. These planar spacing increase uniformly with the number of CH 2 groups in the molecule, indicating an effective length of 1.25 A.U. for the CH 2 group. These and other lines can be accounted for by assuming that the curds are in the smectic state described by Friedel.
Authors: S H Piper, E N Grindley
Language: English
Subfield: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016063441