Raoult's Law and the Melting Point Depression in Mesoscopic Systems
- 23 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 242 (4886) , 1671-1672
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.242.4886.1671
Abstract
Data on the melting point depression in small indium or gold particles and in liquid water held between lipid bilayers indicate that these systems obey Raoult's law, with the surface atoms or molecules acting like solute particles in a dilute solution.Keywords
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