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ELECTRIFICATION OF WATER 



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Concentration 



Fig. 14. Curves showing that when we add increasing concentrations of neu- 

 tral salts with monovalent anion to a neutral m/256 solution of Na2S04 the 

 attraction of the Na2S04 solution for water is diminished. Since this diminution 

 increases in the order K, Li, Mg,the latter being the most depressing ion, it sup- 

 ports the idea that the drop observed in curves of Fig. 3 is due to the repelling 

 action of the cation upon the positively charged particles of water. 



