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IN several recent papers research workers in surface chemistry have reported using ion-exchange resins as a convenient means of removing electrolytes—in place of dialysis in the treatment of inorganic sols, for example, and to obtain ‘conductivity water’ for studies of dilute detergent solutions or monolayers on a Langmuir trough. For most purposes where ‘pure’ water is needed, even in colloid chemistry, the water obtained by passing ordinary distilled water through a ‘mixed-bed’ ion-exchange resin column is perfectly satisfactory, but for any critical work in surface chemistry it is not. The dangers are shown by the following experience.
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SCHENKEL, J., KITCHENER, J. Contamination of Surfaces by Conductivity Water from Ion-exchange Resins. Nature 182, 131 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182131a0
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