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IN a recent paper, DeGroot and Tolhoek1 have attempted, by means of an application of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, to extend Guggenheim's2 ideas concerning the activities of ions and the electrical potential difference between two phases. To this end they have considered a medium showing a bulk motion and in which chemical reactions and flows of energy, matter and electricity are occurring; two different mathematical treatments of this system are given.
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KEMP, P. Thermodynamics of Irreversible Electrochemical Processes. Nature 170, 1028 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/1701028a0
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