Open-air evaporimeter studies on the water evaporation reduction due to hexadecyl (cetyl) alcohol, octadecoxy-ethanol and other monolayers
A.V. Deo, K.V. George, N.R. Sanjana, S.B. Kulkarni, M.K. Gharpurey · MAUSAM (Indian Journal of Meteorology, Hydrology and Geophysics) (1963)
Key finding (our summary)
Among the earliest open-air (rather than laboratory) trials of evaporation-retardant monolayers. Tests in evaporimeters and small tanks found that alkoxy-ethanol films consistently outperformed plain cetyl/stearyl alcohol monolayers, while confirming that real outdoor conditions erode the suppression seen in still-air lab work.
An early move from the bench to the open air, where the monolayer story gets harder — and a sign the field knew this by the 1960s.
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