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Comment on 'Electric polarizabilities of CH 4, CO, and O 2 determined by an optical refractometer'

Published
September 18, 2026

Author(s)

Patrick Egan

Abstract

The work of Zhao et al. has several problems. Here, the focus is on issues specific to oxygen. However, questions about units of magnetic susceptibility and the stability of elastic properties apply to their results for all gases.
Citation
Metrologia
Volume
63
Pub Type
Journals

Citation

Egan, P. (2026), Comment on "Electric polarizabilities of CH_4, CO, and O_2 determined by an optical refractometer", Metrologia, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/1681-7575/aea423, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=961847 (Accessed September 19, 2026)
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