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Silica spheres of 1600- diameter immersed in the binary fluid water+2-6-lutidine have been studied by light-scattering techniques. The scattered light was seen to be strongly dependent on temperature and concentration. This effect is due to the appearance of a lutidine layer on the spheres. The layer thickness dramatically increases near a transition line were the spheres aggregate as a result of attractive interactions. This transition exhibits all the features predicted for the prewetting transition between high and low adsorption of a fluid on a surface.
Beysens et al. (Mon,) studied this question.