Paper, 'Some suggestions regarding solutions' by William Ramsay

Description

Ramsay writes: 'The brilliant presidential address of Professor Orme Masson at the Chemical Section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science marks a distinct advance in our ideas of solution. The analogy between the behaviour of a liquid and its vapour in presence of each other and of a pair of solvents capable of mutual solution is so striking as to carry conviction. The resemblance of the liquid-vapour curve, with its apex at the critical point, to the solubility curve, with its apex at the critical solution point, appears to me to prove beyond cavil that the two phenomena are essentially of the same nature. The address will take rank along with van 't Hoff's classical paper on "Osmotic Pressure".'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 16 February 1891. Read 5 March 1891.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Some suggestions regarding solutions'.

Reference number

PP/17/21

Earliest possible date

1891

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

6 pages

Format

Manuscript