PROCEEDINQS 



OF THK 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. IX, pp. 1-78. July 31, 1907. 



THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF THE QUANTITA- 

 TIVE MEASUREMENTS OF ELECTROLYTIC 

 MIGRATION. 



to the end of the year i9o5. 

 Collected and Arranged by James W. McBain. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



Plan of the bibliography 2 



Experimental methods 3 



Accuracy of the determinations 3 



Errors introduced by the use of diaphragms 4 



Errors introduced by the method of calculation 5 



Interpretation of the results 7 



Hydrated ions 7 



Movement of undissociated electrolyte 8 



Complex ions, hydrolysis S 



Anomalous results ii 



Qualitative experiments 12 



Arrangement of the abstracts, abbreviations, etc 12 



Chronological abstract of the literature 14 



Index of chemicals 7° 



Index of authors' names ^ 76 



Index to experiments with solvents other than water 78 



INTRODUCTION. 



The following compilation is a result of a search through the 

 literature of the subject in connection with my experimental 

 work in 1904 at the University of Toronto on the transference 

 numbers of the weak acids. So much time was required to find 

 and collect the scattered papers in this field, that at the sugges- 



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