The behaviour of crystals and lenses of fats on the surface of water.—Part II. The effect of temperature on the equilibrium pressure

In Part I a study was made of the rate of spread and unimolecular nature of films of fatty substances, containing a long hydrocarbon chain and a polar “head,” over a surface of pure water or of N/100 HC1. It was shown that after a definite interval of time, the surface became saturated with a unimolecular film in equilibrium with either a crystal or a lens of the substance in question, and that the time taken to attain equilibrium as well as the equilibrium surface tension was a function of the temperature. In the present paper the effect of increasing temperature on the two-dimensional equilibrium pressure is considered in detail.