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electrolytic dissociation

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noun

Physical Chemistry.
  1. the separation of the molecule of an electrolyte into its constituent atoms.


Etymology

Origin of electrolytic dissociation

First recorded in 1905–10


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To him is due the establishment of the theory of electrolytic dissociation, supplying a reasonable explanation of many chemical phenomena otherwise insoluble.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

Write the equations representing the reactions between ammonium hydroxide, and sulphuric acid and nitric acid respectively, in accordance with the theory of electrolytic dissociation.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

This charge is very near that which the study of the phenomena of ordinary electrolysis leads us to attribute to a univalent atom produced by electrolytic dissociation.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

The theory of electrolytic dissociation and the properties of solutions.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

The facts which have just been described in connection with solutions, together with many others, have led chemists to adopt a theory of solutions called the theory of electrolytic dissociation.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

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