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The Theory of Dissociation into Ions

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PROF. ARMSTRONG (page 78) says that the chief concern of chemists has been to establish facts; and perhaps this is true; but to an outsider it has seemed recently as if some few facts were unwelcome to the school of chemists represented by himself. For instance, they seemed annoyed at one time with the inertness and the specific-heat-ratio of argon; now he expresses himself as if vexed with the slowness of ionic velocities, and “declines to accept it.”

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LODGE, O. The Theory of Dissociation into Ions. Nature 55, 150–151 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055150b0

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