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WITH certain additions this work is a translation of Book IV. of the second edition of Ostwald's “Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Chemie.” At the present time there is no department of physical chemistry which is receiving more attention, and which is the subject of more controversy, than that of solutions. On the Continent, the physical theory of solution, arising out of the ideas of van't Hoff and Arrhenius, has obtained, for the most part, ready acceptance. Although the earlier of these conceptions is but some six years old, their applications and the facts accumulated around them have already become so numerous that to piece fact and theory together, and keep the main issues of the case to the fore, is a necessity. To carry out these ends no one is better fitted than the Professor of Chemistry in the University of Leipzig. Prof. Ostwald is one of the warmest supporters of the physical theory, and has done more, perhaps, than any other, to make it what it now is.
Solutions.
By W. Ostwald. Translated by M. M. Pattison Muir. Pp. 316. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891).
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R., J. The Physical Theory of Solution. Nature 45, 193–195 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045193a0
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