SMOLUCHOWSKI, MARIAN.

Versuch einer mathematischen Theorie der Koagulationskinetik kolloidaler Lösungen.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1917. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from: "Zeitschrift für physicalische Chemie", XCII band, 2. heft. Very fine and clean. Pp. 129-168.

Scarce offprint of Smoluchowski's important paper on the mathematics behind his seminal coagulation equation.
"The underlying model may be described as follows: Consider n particles in three-dimensional Euclidean space, each particle being surrounded by a sphere of influence of diameter R. The particles move independently of each other, according to a Brownian Motion, as long as their distance is greater than R. When two particles meet at a distance R they stick together and form a "double particle", which itself is again in Brownian motion - and so on. Smoluchowski found on a heuristic basis an explicit formula for the average concentration of single, double, triple etc. particles at a time t." (Lang, Smoluchowski's Theory of Coagulation in Colloids Holds Rigorously in the Boltzmann-Grad-Limit)

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