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THE view put forward by Armstrong in 1885, that “chemical action is reversed electrolysis,” has been brilliantly vindicated in the field of inorganic chemistry, especially by H. B. Baker's experimental verification of the bold prediction that highly purified water will not determine the explosion of hydrogen and oxygen. In organic chemistry similar evidence in favour of Armstrong's theory has been afforded by the proof that a catalyst is needed even to effect the transfer of an atom of hydrogen from one part of the molecule to another in prototropic compounds such as ethyl acetoacetate or nitrocamphor.
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LOWRY, T. Graphitic Conduction in Conjugated Chains of Carbon Atoms: A Contribution to Armstrong's Theory of Chemical Change. Nature 115, 376–377 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115376a0
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