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IT is well known that the stability factor of hydrophobic sols decreases, at first, exponentially with the ionic strength of the solution, and reaches, rather suddenly, its limiting value for a certain concentration C 1 of the coagulating electrolyte1. For concentrations lower than C 1 we have the so-called ‘slow coagulation’; the interaction energy consists of long-range electrical repulsions, dependent on ionic strength, and of Van der Waals attractions. For concentrations higher than C 1, the electrical repulsions have practically disappeared2 and we have ‘rapid coagulation’.
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DE BROUCKÈRE, L., WATILLON, A. & VAN GRUNDERBEECK, F. Existence of a Non-Electrostatic Stabilizing Factor in Hydrophobic Selenium Hydrosols. Nature 178, 589 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178589a0
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