The law of mass action : a centenary volume, 1864-1964 / [editor: Otto Bastiansen].

Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 1964.

194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

In celebration of the centenary of the law of mass action.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction, by O. Bastiansen.--A facsimile of the original paper of Cato Maximilian Guldberg and Peter Waage, presented by Waage at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on March the 11th 1864 [entitled: Studier over affiniteten, in Norwegian]--Cato Maximilian Guldberg and Peter Waage, by H. Haraldsen.--Guldberg and Waage and the law of mass action, by E.W. Lund and O. Hassel.--Some features of chemical kinetics, by J.A. Christiansen.--An invesitgation of slow and rapid coagulation of hydrosols by means of a flow ultramicroscope, by B.V. Derjaguin and M. Koudryavtseva.--Guldberg and Waage's law in the gravitational field, by H. Wergeland.--Steady states and variational principles, by I. Prigogine.--Absolute reaction rate theory and the law of mass action, by H. Eyring and S.H. Lin.--Application of the mass-action law on ionic equilibria in fused salt mixtures, by J. Toguri, H. Flood and T. Førland.--The energy of transargononic bonds, by L. Pauling.--Notes on molecular geometry and chemical reactivity in connection with the B 12 vitamins, by D.C. Hodgkin.--Atomic arrangement in compounds or complexes containing chemical bonds of the charge-transfer type, by O. Hassel.--Plutonium metal, by W.H. Zachariasen.