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THERE is a class of colloids, recognised as a class for very many years, in which the substance is a salt of an ordinary ionisable type the peculiarity of which consists simply in a prodigious disparity in size and solubility between the two parts of the salt molecule. Such are many proteins, some dyes, and soaps, to enumerate them in the order in which they have been investigated. What all colloids do surreptitiously, namely, take to themselves uncovenanted ions, these do in an honest straight forward chemical fashion.
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A most interesting suggestion as to their structure is that of Adam, in the Proc. Roy. Soc., A, xcix. 336, 1921.
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HARDY, W. The Micelle—A Question of Notation. Nature 112, 537 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112537a0
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