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IN NATURE of January 22, Benedicks and Sederholm, under the above title, showed that the exposure to air of freshly cut surfaces of paraffin, lead and tin resulted in a lessened cohesion when two plane surfaces of the solid in question are brought into contact. By measuring the cohesion after different periods of exposure to the air, it was shown that, in the case of tin for example, important changes took place during the first five minutes exposure of a freshly cut surface. These changes are attributed to the rapid formation of a thin adsorbed layer.
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BANNISTER, L. Influence of an Adsorbed (Inner) Layer on the Cohesion of a Solid. Nature 153, 315–316 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153315a0
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