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Attention may be directed to a paper by Prof. A. Findlay on osmotic pressure and the theory of solutions, which has recently been published in Scientia. It has sometimes been suggested that the problems of osmotic pressure were solved once for all by van't Hoff's discovery that the gas equation PV = RT could be applied to solutions by substituting “osmotic pressure” for “gas pressure.” But the recent exact measurements of the Earl of Berkeley and Mr. Hartley in England and of Morse and his colleagues in America have shown clearly that this simple equation is so restricted that it cannot in practice be applied with any approach to accuracy in the case of any of those solutions of which the osmotic pressures have been exactly measured.
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Osmotic Pressure and the Theory of Solutions . Nature 90, 497 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090497b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090497b0