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IN a recent issue (NATURE, vol. xxxiii. pp. 350-51) you drew attention in your “Chemical Notes” to some recent researches of M. Konovaloff on “contact-actions,” and to the suggestion made by him that “the dissociation (in the cases referred to) was a consequence of the contact-action of the solid body.” On referring to the abstract of M. Konovaloff's paper in the Journal of the Chemical Society for January, 1886, I meet with the following:—“As an explanation of this contact-action phenomenon it is asked whether it is not possible that the bombardment of the molecules on the solid matter causes the kinetic energy of the molecules to be transformed in part into the internal work required for their decomposition.”
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IRVING, A. Dissociation and Contact-Action. Nature 33, 485–486 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033485a0
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