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. 2016 Jan 27;6:19265. doi: 10.1038/srep19265

Figure 1. Plot of the work of adhesion (W) versus number of carbon atoms (n) in n-alkanes.

Figure 1

Data from Goebel and Lunkenheimer11. Eq. 1 was fitted to the data (solid curve) with the computer program R, yielding A = 20.6 ± 2.1 erg/cm2 (29.6 ± 3.0 cal/Å), B = 15.6 ± 2.4 erg/cm2 (22.4 ± 3.4 cal/Å2), and C = 0.79 ± 0.026.