We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that ….

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hyd….

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, ….

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing….

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiatio….

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydrox….

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does ….

I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the mo….

A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Thro….