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IX.—On the Relationship between Concentration and Electrolytic Conductivity in Concentrated Aqueous Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

John Gibson
Affiliation:
Heriot Watt College.

Extract

Although great advances have been made during the last thirty years in our knowledge of dilute solutions, there has been no corresponding advance in respect of concentrated solutions. This is primarily due to the fact that hitherto no simple and general relationship has been discovered between the conductivity and the concentration of concentrated solutions of electrolytes. Ostwald's law of dilution holds only for dilute solutions of weak electrolytes, and the formulæ of Rudolphi and Van T'Hoff are applicable only to dilute solutions of good electrolytes. It seems therefore important to inquire whether the difficulty may not be to some extent overcome by an alteration in the mode of representing the facts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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References

page 257 note * κ = specific conductivity.