Langmuir

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Langmuir may refer to:

  • Langmuir (crater), an impact crater on the Moon's far side
  • Langmuir (journal), an academic journal on colloids, surfaces and interfaces, published by the American Chemical Society
  • Langmuir (unit), a unit of exposure of an adsorbate/gas to a substrate used in surface science to study adsorption
  • Langmuir Cove, a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica
  • Langmuir monolayer, a one-molecule thick layer of an insoluble organic material spread onto an aqueous subphase in a Langmuir-Blodgett trough

People[edit]

  • Alexander Langmuir (1910–1993), American epidemiologist
  • Gavin I. Langmuir (1924–2005), Canadian veteran of World War II, historian of anti-Semitism and medievalist at Stanford University
  • Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist

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