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Science 23 December 1988:
Vol. 242. no. 4886, pp. 1671 - 1672
DOI: 10.1126/science.242.4886.1671
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Raoult's Law and the Melting Point Depression in Mesoscopic Systems

Günter Nimtz 1, Peter D. Marquardt 1, Dietrich Stauffer 1, and Wilfried Weiss 1

1 Physikalische Institute der Universität zu Köln, 5000 Köln 41, Federal Republic of Germany

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.

Submitted on August 23, 1988
Accepted on October 13, 1988

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