Abstract
THE second edition of this work conforms in general to the plan of the first, i.e. it gives an account of the properties of suspensoid sols from the point of view of the physicist. The Brownian movement and the electrical phenomena accordingly claim the largest share, while the optical properties of small particles are also treated with unusual fulness. The rather difficult investigations dealing with these matters are summarised with great skill and lucidity. Apart from some omissions—among which the X-ray analysis of colloidal particles, Pauli's work on the effect of radiation, and Ostwald's on the protection of Congo-rubin sols must be mentioned—all important advances made since 1914 have been embodied in the present edition. This applies specially to the gradual breaking down of all “valency rules”in electrolyte coagulation. The book is excellently produced, and will be welcome to all serious students of the subject.
The Physical Properties of Colloidal Solutions.
Prof.
E. F.
Burton
By. Second edition. (Monographs on Physics.) Pp. viii + 221. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1921.) 12s. 6d. net.
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The Physical Properties of Colloidal Solutions . Nature 109, 39 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109039c0
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