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On the Forces Between Positive Ions and Neutral Molecules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Henry Margenau
Henry Margenau*
Affiliation:
Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University
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In theories of the mobilities of ions in gases a rather precise knowledge is required of the forces which are called into play when an ion approaches a neutral molecule; for it is by virtue of these forces that ions are deflected from their paths and that their drift along the electric force is impeded. Again, the current question whether ions, in their motion through a gas, form “clusters”, that is, whether they surround themselves by one or even more layers of neutral molecules, can be decided theoretically only on the basis of a rather precise knowledge of the interactions.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1941 , pp. 603 - 613
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1941

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References

1 H. S. W. Massey and C. B. O. Mohr, Proc. Roy. Soc. 144A, 188 (1934).

2 As our calculations will show, this happens to entail but a negligible error in the interaction He+—He, treated by Massey and Mohr.

3 L. B. Loeb, Fundamental Processes of Electrical Discharge in Gases. John Wiley and Sons, 1939.

4 Cf. for instance H. Margenau, Rev. Mod. Phys. 11, 1 (1939).

5 H. Margenau, Jour. Chcm. Phys. 9, 896 (1938).

6 E. Rabinowitsch and E. Thilo, Zeits. f. Phys. Chem. 6, 284 (1930).

7 A. E. van Arkel and J. H. DeBoer, Chemische Bindung, Leipzig, 1931.

8 V. M. Goldschmidt, Trans. Faraday Soc. 25, 253 (1929).