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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 13, 657-668, Copyright © 1930 by The Rockefeller University Press

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ELECTROKINETIC PHENOMENA. II

THE FACTOR OF PROPORTIONALITY FOR CATAPHORETIC AND ELECTROENDOSMOTIC MOBILITIES



Harold A. Abramson 1

1 From the Department of Physical Chemistry in the Laboratories of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston

Two theories which predict different values for the ratio of VE, the electroendosmotic velocity of a liquid past a surface, to Vp, the electric mobility of a particle of the same surface through the same liquid are discussed. The theory demanding that

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was supported by certain data of van der Grinten for a glass surface. Re-calculation of van der Grinten's data reveals that the ratio varies between 2.1 and 2.8. These results are in accord with previous data of Abramson. It is pointed out that glass is unsuitable for the investigation.

The ratio

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is here determined for a flat surface and particles when both are covered by the same proteins. Under these conditions

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The theory is similarly tested for a round surface using a micro-cataphoresis cell. It is shown that

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for a round surface is approximately 1.00. These findings are confirmatory of previous data supporting the view that cataphoretic mobility is independent of the size and shape of the particles when all particles compared have similar surface constitutions.

 Accepted on April 16, 1930


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