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THE ” Introduction to Chemical Crystallography”, to which Sir William Pope refers, was reviewed in NATURE of August 1, 1895 (52, 315), and in the notice the word solute occurs italicised as here shown: ” the conditions of equilibrium in a solution containing various solutes (to employ a convenient word suggested by Prof. Maskelyne in his preface as a term for the substances dissolved)”. Though the preface was dated November 18, 1894, the book containing it was not published until 1895. Before this date, Prof. F. G. Donnan had proposed the use of the word solute in a letter from Leipzig published in NATUBE of December 27, 1894. The letter is so short that we reproduce it in full. ” Corresponding to the words solvent and solution, some word is very badly wanted to express the dissolved substance. The analogous word is evidently solute, and it is as short and euphonious as the others. May I inquire why it is not in general use? Surely someone must have proposed it.”
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Origin of the Term Solute. Nature 137, 782 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137782c0
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