ELECTROLYTIC THEORY OF DISSOCIATION

ARRHENIUS, SVANTE AUGUST.

Recherches sur la Conductibilité Galvanique des Électrolytes. I: La conductibilté des solutions aqueuses extrêmement diluées déterminée au moyen du dépolarisateur. II: Théorie chimique des électrolytes.

Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1884. 8vo. (224x145 mm). Offprint in origianal printed wrappers. Exlibrary stamps and sticker on front wrapper. (Journal version printed in 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. 63,(1);89,(1) pp. and 1 lithographed plate. Fine and clean. Uncut and unopened. A fine copy.

First edition, offprint issue of Arrhenius' famous dissertation, in which he first presented his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation". A German translation was published in 'Ostwald's Klassiker'. See Dictionary of Scientific Biography, I:p.296-302 and Partington, IV:p.672-81.

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