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Micelles and Colloidal Ions

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MR. W. B. HARDY in his letter to NATURE of October 13, p. 537, entitled “The Micelle—A Question of Notation,” advocates the conception of the colloidal ion and postulates that the ideas of other workers coincide with his own, so that merely a question of nomenclature is involved; nevertheless, in his opinion, it is positively wrong to refer to a colloidal ion as a micelle.

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McBAIN, J. Micelles and Colloidal Ions. Nature 112, 865 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112865d0

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