CONTENTS OF Mr Whetham’s ‘Solution and Electrolysis.’
I. Thermodynamics.
II. The Phase Rule.
III. The Phase Rule. Two Components. Solutions.
IV. Solubility.
V. Osmotic Pressure.
VI. Vapour Pressures and Freezing Points.
VII. Theories of Solution.
VIII. Electrolysis.
IX. Conductivity of Electrolytes.
X. Galvanic Cells.
XI. Contact Electricity and Polarization.
XII. The Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation.
XIII. Diffusion in Solutions.
XIV. Solutions of Colloids.
Additions.
Table of Electro-chemical Properties of Aqueous Solutions.
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PREFACE. Some words are perhaps necessary to explain the publication of another book dealing with Elementary Electricity. A considerable portion of the present work has been in type for a long time; it was used originally as a part of the practical work in Physics for Medical Students at the Cavendish Laboratory in connexion with my lectures, and was expanded by Mr Wilberforce and Mr Fitzpatrick in one of their Laboratory Note-books of Practical Physics.
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