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An interfacial isotope effect

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RADIOACTIVE carbon is utilised commonly to tag compounds used in interfacial studies. As is usual in studies with isotopes of carbon, it has been assumed tacitly that the radioactive surfactant behaves exactly like the untagged or inactive compound. During a study1 of condensed monolayers at the water–air interface, however, a significant kinetic isotope effect was observed in their stability behaviour.

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    RONALD D. NEUMAN

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NEUMAN, R. An interfacial isotope effect. Nature 250, 725–726 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250725a0

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