“The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.”
Quote by Wilhelm Ostwald
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Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist and one of the founders of physical chemistry. Wilhelm Ostwald was born on September 2, 1853, and died on April 4, 1932. He made significant contributions to the fields of electrochemistry, catalysis, chemical equilibrium, and kinetics. more