Note 156 — Chapter V · THE THEORY OF IONIZATION. II Ionization and Osmotic Pressure. Ionization and Chemical Activity
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The work of Ostwald, Arrhenius, Nernst and many others shows conclusively that the liberation of hydrogen by metals and the precipitation of metals by one another is a function of ion concentrations (Chapter XIV). Vide Nernst, Theoretische Chemie (1905), p. 245.