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It is a well-known fact that some lamellar crystals, such as montmorillonite, graphite and hæmoglobin1, swell reversibly upon the addition of water, the latter entering in small defined layers between the crystal planes. It is the purpose of this note to direct attention to some remarkable examples of such behaviour on a much more striking scale. These occur in liquid crystalline solutions of some detergents (anisotropic aqueous phases). In these, all the added water appears to enter the expanded lamellar lattice.
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PHILIPPOFF, W., MCBAIN, J. Expansion of the Lamellar Crystal Lattice of Aerosol OT' upon the Addition of Water. Nature 164, 885 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164885a0
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