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The mill reek and the Devonshire colic.
According to the Statistical Account of Scotland (Maconochie, 1792) the village of Leadhills in Lanarkshire contains the most famous and ancient lead mines in Scotland. They were included in a grant of lands to the monks of Newbattle Abbey in 1239 and, from a lawsuit soon afterwards, it is clear that the mines were in production about that date. Depending on demand and the price of lead they ha...
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We reanalyse the cell theory of Lennard-Jones and Devonshire and find that in addition to the critical point originally reported for the 12−6 potential (and widely quoted in standard textbooks), the model exhibits a further critical point. We show that the latter is actually a more appropriate candidate for liquid-gas criticality than the original critical point. Typeset using REVTEX
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The deformation of the ground surface that is produced by frost heave has motivated almost a century of concerted laboratory, field and theoretical studies. Well before the development of equipment capable of resolving the microscopic films that support liquid transport towards growing ice lenses, early investigators predicted their occurrence and noted their importance. Idealized experiments c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1886
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/033418b0