Langmuir may refer to: Langmuir (crater), an impact crater on the Moon's far side Langmuir (journal), an academic journal on colloids, surfaces and interfaces...
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Irving Langmuir (/ˈlæŋmjʊər/; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
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Alexander Duncan Langmuir (/ˈlæŋmjʊər/; September 12, 1910 – November 22, 1993) was an American epidemiologist who served as Chief Epidemiologist of the...
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The Langmuir adsorption model explains adsorption by assuming an adsorbate behaves as an ideal gas at isothermal conditions. According to the model, adsorption...
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Plasma oscillation (redirect from Langmuir waves)
Plasma oscillations, also known as Langmuir waves (after Irving Langmuir), are rapid oscillations of the electron density in conducting media such as...
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Langmuir is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1985 and is published by the American Chemical Society. It is the leading journal...
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Eric Duncan Grant Langmuir MBE FRSE (3 May 1931 – 18 September 2005) was a Scottish mountaineer and educationalist. Langmuir attended the independent school...
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In fluid dynamics, and oceanography, Langmuir turbulence is a turbulent flow with coherent Langmuir circulation structures that exist and evolve over a...
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Langmuir-Blodgett may refer to: Langmuir–Blodgett film Langmuir–Blodgett trough Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett This disambiguation page lists...
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The langmuir (symbol: L) is a unit of exposure (or dosage) to a surface (e.g. of a crystal) and is used in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) surface physics to study...
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In physical oceanography, Langmuir circulation consists of a series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the...
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A Langmuir–Blodgett trough (LB trough) is an item of laboratory apparatus that is used to compress monolayers of molecules on the surface of a given subphase...
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Space charge (redirect from Child-Langmuir Law)
effect. In the limit of large current densities, J is given by the Child–Langmuir equation below, rather than by the thermionic emission equation above....
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Monolayer (redirect from Langmuir monolayer)
graphene and molybdenum disulfide are generally called 2D materials. A Langmuir monolayer or insoluble monolayer is a one-molecule thick layer of an insoluble...
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Reactions on surfaces (redirect from Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics)
{K_{1}C_{\mathrm {A} }}{K_{1}C_{\mathrm {A} }+1}}} The last expression is the Langmuir isotherm for the surface coverage. The adsorption equilibrium constant...
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Adsorption (section Langmuir)
applications in surface kinetics (usually called Langmuir–Hinshelwood kinetics) and thermodynamics. Langmuir suggested that adsorption takes place through...
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Octet rule (redirect from Lewis-Langmuir theory)
to distinguish between valence and valence electrons. In 1919, Irving Langmuir refined these concepts further and renamed them the "cubical octet atom"...
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A Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film is an emerging kind of 2D materials to fabricate heterostructures for nanotechnology, formed when Langmuir films—or Langmuir...
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Saha ionization equation (redirect from Saha–Langmuir equation)
In physics, the Saha ionization equation is an expression that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure...
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Hill equation (biochemistry) (redirect from Hill-Langmuir equation)
saturated or bound by the ligand. This equation is formally equivalent to the Langmuir isotherm. Conversely, the Hill equation proper reflects the cellular or...
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Hertz–Knudsen equation (redirect from Knudsen-Langmuir equation)
In surface chemistry, the Hertz–Knudsen equation, also known as Knudsen–Langmuir equation describes evaporation rates, named after Heinrich Hertz and Martin...
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Pathological science (redirect from Langmuir's examples)
first used by Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, during a 1953 colloquium at the Knolls Research Laboratory. Langmuir said a pathological science...
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The Irving Langmuir House is a historic house at 1176 Stratford Road in Schenectady, New York. Built about 1900, it was the home of physicist-chemist Irving...
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Segregation (materials science) (redirect from Langmuir–McLean theory)
that the sum of p and P is constant. Here the grain boundary analogue of Langmuir adsorption at free surfaces becomes: X b X b 0 − X b = X c 1 − X c exp...
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A Langmuir–Taylor detector, also called surface ionization detector or hot wire detector, is a kind of ionization detector used in mass spectrometry, developed...
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The Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded annually, in even years by the American Chemical Society and in odd years by the American Physical...
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Roddy Langmuir (born 8 June 1960) is a British former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics. He then trained as an architect and is now...
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Debye sheath (section The Child–Langmuir law)
negative layer. Sheaths were first described by American physicist Irving Langmuir. In 1923 he wrote: "Electrons are repelled from the negative electrode...
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Gavin I. Langmuir (April 2, 1924 – July 10, 2005) was a Canadian medievalist historian. Much of his work focused on the Jews of medieval England and the...
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Sean Langmuir (born 9 November 1967 in Grantown-on-Spey) is a British former alpine skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde...
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