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THE available biological and chemical evidence indicates that the effective germicidal life of aerosols containing sodium hypochlorite depends on the velocity of changes occurring between the collisions of carbon dioxide molecules in the air with droplets of the aerosol, and the appearance of the corresponding hydrogen ions. One of the changes concerned, namely the hydration of the dissolved gas, has been shown by McBain1 to be a measurably slow reaction, and it is therefore of interest to determine the effect of the salts normally present, and of other substances, upon it.
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POWELL, E. Velocity of Hydration of Carbon Dioxide in the Presence of Extraneous Substances. Nature 146, 401 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146401c0
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