Abstract
Earlier measurements have shown that the equations derived for the resistance of suspension of spheres apply up to a volume concentration of 100% for close-packing forms. They have also shown, by a resistance-capacitance analogue, that they apply for the capacity of a close-packing of membrane-covered square cylinders in square array, approximating muscle and nerve. The present work is an extension of the two-dimensional to a three-dimensional array of membrane-covered cubes in a cubic array. It is found by measurements of a three-dimensional electrolytic analogue that the capacitance is indeed expressed by an extension of the analytic solution at low concentrations up to 100% volume concentration of the membrane-covered form, such as epithelial tissues. There is thus at least one example each of two-and three-dimensional forms which conform to the low concentration analysis up to 100% volume and so give a basis for the extensions to other and more complicated forms to complete a survey to work begun by Fricke in 1923.
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