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Solutions and Heat Engines
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Solutions and Heat Engines

  • J. S. HALDANE 

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IT is not usual for an author to complain of a review of his book; but I confess that the theory of osmotic pressure put forward (in place of an account of my own reasoning) by the reviewer, in NATURE of Feb. 16, of my book “Gases and Liquids”, almost took my breath away. As the reviewer's reply, in NATURE of Mar. 9, to Prof. Armstrong's criticisms of this theory seems to me totally inadequate, perhaps I may be allowed space for some remarks.

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HALDANE, J. Solutions and Heat Engines. Nature 123, 445 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123445b0

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