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The study of thin water films on insulator surfaces started, as did many of the pioneering investigations in surface science, with Irving Langmuir [1]. In 1918 he measured film thicknesses on mica and glass. His procedure, elegant in its simplicity, involved taking many sheets of mica or cover glass slides from the ambient laboratory environment and stacking them in a small cell. The adsorbed molecules (principally H2O) on these surfaces were driven off by heating to 300EC and captured in a trap cooled with liquid air. The number of water molecules caught, together with the known geometric area of the substrate surfaces, allowed a calculation of thin water film coverages: 2 molecular layers on mica and 4.5 on glass. If we view these insulator substrates as typical, then we come to expect any insulator surface to have a few molecular layers of water stuck to it under ambient conditions.
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Ewing, G.E., Foster, M., Cantrell, W., Sadtchenko, V. (2003). Thin Film Water on Insulator Surfaces. In: Buch, V., Devlin, J.P. (eds) Water in Confining Geometries. Springer Series in Cluster Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05231-0_9
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