Carefully purified benzene and cyclohexane exhibit x-ray diffraction peaks corresponding to preferred spacings of 4.68A and 5.09A, respectively, which are interpreted as the effective thicknesses of the respective rings. Mixtures of these two hydrocarbons give rise to two independent diffraction peaks indicating emulsion-type solutions, in which the disperse phase is too small to show even a Tyndall effect.
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