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COLLOIDAL electrolytes are among the commonest of substances, probably more numerous than acids and bases. I have denned this class as electrolytes in which at least one of the ions is replaced by colloidal particles1. Examples are the family of soaps and the closely related sulphated compounds and the modern synthetic detergents, the bile salts, the dyes, biocolloids and many others. For no one of these solutions have we complete physical chemical information, and the various members show such characteristic differences that the following general statements serve only as a guide.
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MCBAIN, J. Colloidal Electrolytes. Nature 145, 702–703 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145702a0
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