38 LAWS OF THE MIXTURE OF TWO 



with the undissolved sugar, and are thus enabled to 

 exert their solvent powers. 



If skin and membranes consist of a cohering 

 system of very narrow tubes, it is obvious, that when 

 two dissimilar, but miscible liquids are separated by 

 such a tissue, the pores of the tissue will fill with 

 each of the two liquids. In all situations, where 

 the liquids came in contact in the substance of the 

 membrane, a mixture takes place, and this mixture 

 is extended equally towards both sides. 



If there be brine on one side of the bladder, and 

 water on the other, there must be formed, in the 

 middle, or at some point of the bladder, a diluted 

 brine, which on the side in contact with the water 

 yields salt to that water, while on the opposite side 

 the strong brine mixes with the diluted brine in the 

 bladder. 



The substance of the bladder has no influence on 

 this mixture, because it can produce no change of 

 place on the part of the saline or aqueous particles, 

 for this is the result of the chemical affinity acting 

 between the particles of salt and those of water. 

 Rapidity of Now since the rapidity of the mixture of two 

 liquids stands in a direct proportion to the amount 

 of their surfaces coming into contact within a 

 given time, and since the liquids, separated by a 

 bladder, can only come in contact through its pores, 

 while the number of points of contact is diminished 

 by the presence of the non-porous parts of the 



