IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
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A STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLU- 
TIONS OF LITHIUM CHLORIDE IN 
AMYL ALCOHOL. 
BY LAUNCELOT W. ANDREWS AND CARL ENDE. 
There can be no doubt that much light can be thrown upon 
the nature of electrolytic processes by a systematic examina- 
tion of electrolytes containing no water; for the principles of the 
Electrolytic Dissociation Theory, if general, must be valid, not 
only for solutions in water, but also for all others, and conclu- 
sions derived from the study of the former can best receive 
independent confirmation or rebuttal by a careful investigation 
of the latter. The questions upon which such an investigation 
should bear are chiefly these: 1. Does Ostwald’s Law of Dilu- 
tion hold good for non-aqueous solutions? 2. In what way is 
the translation velocity of the ions related to the nature of the 
solvent? 3. Is the relatively high resistance of non-aqueous 
solutions of salts and acids chiefly due to higher internal fric- 
tion, or to a lower grade of electrolytic dissociation? 4. Do the 
general physical properties of such solutions point to molecular 
aggregation, to dissociation, or to both? 
Non-aqueous electrolytes have been subjected to investiga- 
tion by Koblukoff (Zeitschr. f. phys. Chem. 4, 429), Wakemann 
{1. c. 11, 49), Wildermann {1. c. 14, 231 and 247), Schlamp 
{1. c. 14, 272), Vollmer (Diss*^., Halle, 1892), Bouty (C. R. 106, 
595 [1888]), Fitzpatrick (Phil. Mag. (5), 24, 377 [1887]), Vicen- 
tini (Mem. Acc. Torino 36 [1884], from Beibl. Phys. Chem. 9, 
131 [1885]), and Andrews (Iowa Acad, of Science, I, hi, 12). 
For such studies it is desirable to select a solvent that can 
be, with relative ease, obtained and preserved free from water, 
and a binary salt which is freely soluble, and whose aqueous 
solutions have already been examined electrolytically. 
Further, the solutions must be sufficiently conductive to be 
capable of exact measurement, and the substances employed 
* Unfortunately not accessible to us. 
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