Über die Durchsichtigkeit der Lösungen farbloser Salze

Spring, W. Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische Chemie (1896), 13, 19; SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts Service: Columbus, OH); https://scifinder.cas.org (accessed July 8, 2010).

The presence of lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, strontium, calcium and barium chlorides; of potassium bromide; and of sodium and potassium nitrates has no effect upon the color of a layer of water, twenty-six meters thick. Light is absorbed by these solutions but the amount is not strictly proportional to the concentration. It is probable that the absorption is a function of the electrolytic dissociation. The author suggests that the transparency of metals may be a function of the conductivity.

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