Abstract
THE theory of reversible ionisation, advanced by Arrhenius in 1887, owed its widespread acceptance to the fallacy that the degree of dissociation of a salt can be calculated independently from the conductivity and the osmotic properties of its solutions. In more recent years the concordance between the values deduced in these two ways has been denounced on the grounds that it has no sound theoretical basis and that the numbers cited by Ostwald and others do not in fact provide the experimental justification that was claimed for them in the days when the study of dilute solutions was heralded as the birth of a new science of physical chemistry.
The Conductivity of Solutions and the Modern Dis sociation Theory.
Cecil W. Davies. Pp. viii + 204. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1930.) 15s. net.
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LOWRY, T. The Conductivity of Solutions and the Modern Dis sociation Theory . Nature 126, 429–430 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126429a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126429a0
