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To determine the size of gas-molecules Loschmidt, in his famous paper “On the size of air molecules,”1 used a relation between the scattering cross-section of molecules and their mean free path, which had been derived by Maxwell in 1860 and which Loschmidt phrased in the form:
“The diameter of the molecules of a gas is equal to the eightfold mean free path of the molecules multiplied by the condensation-coefficient.”1
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Flamm, D. (1997). Four Papers by Loschmidt on the State of Thermal Equilibrium. In: Fleischhacker, W., Schönfeld, T. (eds) Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0268-9_19
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