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THE establishment of a new truth invariably evokes a number of new fallacies; the brighter the light that a new theory sheds on its proper field, the darker, and the more distorting, the shadows in which it submerges the experience which lies around the borders of its true scope. The striking success of the theory of electrolytic dissociation based on mass action law blinded scientific workers for more than twenty years to the necessity of invoking a new principle for the explanation of the marked deviations from this law in solutions of neutral salts and strong acids and bases.
Acid-Base Catalysis
By R. P. Bell. Pp. viii + 212. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1941.) 12s. 6d. net.
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POLANYI, M. Acid-Base Catalysis. Nature 149, 103 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149103a0
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