...reverse should be the case.'" Nowhere has Arrhenius made any such statement : the deviation may be in one direction or the other, depending on the nature of the dissolved body and of the solvent. The objections urged by Mr. Pickering against the theory of osmotic...

...displacement of the conditions of equilibrium. The direction of the process can be reversed so that it goes in one direction or the other depending on the nature of the change of conditions. Thus, a reversible process can be visualized as the passage of a system through...