Cryoscopic Irregularities in Palmitic Acid

Abstract

The problem of the physical behaviour of non-reacting molecules in solutions, although on it a great amount of work has been done, and in spite of the many laws of dilute solution, remains largely unexplained. The cryoscopic method of investigation in the hands of Raoult, Beckmann, van't Hoff, and many others has played no small part in developing the advancing theories of solution. But apart from being of aid in the general investigation of the theory, irregularities in the depression of the freezing point have proved of great service as indications of ionization and of association; although the deductions concerning these phenomena are now interpreted with extreme caution.