Excerpt from Conductivity and Viscosity in Mixed Solvents: A Study of the Conductivity and Viscosity of Solutions of Certain Electrolytes in Water, Methyl Alcohol, Ethyl Alcohol, and Acetone, and in Binary Mixtures of These Solvents The earlier work in physical chemistry had to deal almost exclusively with aqueous solutions. This was due to the fact that water is by far the most universal solvent. It dissolves a much larger number of substances than any other known liquid. Further, water has greater power to break molecules down into ions than any other common solvent. For these reasons water is the most important solvent chemically; indeed, chemistry is largely a science of aqueous solutions. Again, water, of all the common solvents, is the most easily obtained, and in a fair degree of purity. These are some of the reasons why solutions in water as the solvent were studied first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.