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The Dissociation Theory of Solution

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IT is now forty-three years since the electrolytic dissociation theory was proposed by Arrhenius in 1887, to account for the changes in the physical properties of solutions caused by electrolytes, which had compelled Van't Hoff to introduce the coefficient i into the gas equation PV=RT.

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BRADFORD, S. The Dissociation Theory of Solution. Nature 126, 166–167 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126166a0

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