Note 27 — Chapter XXI · CHROMIUM, MOLYBDENUM, TUNGSTEN, URANIUM, AND MANGANESE

The researches made by Hood, Van't Hoff, Ostwald, Warder, Menschutkin, Konovaloff, and others have a particular significance in this direction. Owing to the comparative novelty of this subject, and the absence of applicable as well as indubitable deductions, I consider it impossible to enter into this province of theoretical chemistry, although I am quite confident that its development should lead to very important results, especially in respect to chemical equilibria, for Van't Hoff has already shown that the limit of reaction in reversible reactions is determined by the attainment of equal velocities for the opposite reactions.