Abstract
IT is related that Prof. Nernst was wont to refer to the science of colloids as die trube Wissenschaft (the cloudy science). The innuendo implied in this witty remark was not without some justification at one time, but that day is long past. So great have been the advances made during the last thirty or forty years in the study of sols and gels, interfacial 'properties and actions, and the structure and behaviour of large molecules or micelles-from 'macro' to 'mega'-that colloid science with its many applications now occupies a position of great and growing importance, and can offer to the student of Nature not only a very large body of quantitatively well established and well correlated phenomena, but also a corresponding body of scientific principles and reasoning.
Industrial Chemistry of Colloidal and Amorphous Materials
By Prof. Warren K. Lewis Lombard Squires Dr. Geoffrey Broughton. Pp. xii + 540. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942.) 5.50 dollars.
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DONNAN, F. Industrial Chemistry of Colloidal and Amorphous Materials. Nature 151, 289–291 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151289a0
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