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THE last decade witnessed a violent revolution in our fundamental conceptions of the electrochemistry of solutions, in the course of which the classical theory of Arrhenius, postulating incomplete ionisation of strong electrolytes and constant ionic mobilities, was dethroned in favour of the Debye-Huckel theory, postulating complete ionisation with ionic mobility a function of concentration. In a sense, this revolution is still incomplete, since several important points in the Debye-Hückel theory are not yet satisfactorily developed and the original ideas of Arrhenius must still be called into service hi connexion with weak and transition electrolytes, but remarkable changes have been effected in a domain where conditions were long regarded as settled and, after a great deal of natural hesitation in certain quarters, practically all the experts in the field have now reconciled themselves to the new regime.
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KENDALL, J. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik . Nature 130, 982 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130982a0
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