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Theoretical Studies of Electrons in Fluids

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The Liquid State and Its Electrical Properties

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While we could probably trace the appearance of excess electrons in fluids to prehistoric thunderstorms, a more likely starting point for our discussion is man’s discovery of metal ammonia solutions. It had been widely believed that the German chemist Weyl (1864) was the first to study this interesting system in 1863 since he published the first accounts of his studies in the Annals of Physics in 1864. However, Peter Edwards (1982) discovered in a laboratory notebook dated November 1808, almost fifty years earlier, that Sir Humphry Davy had made very detailed studies of potassium exposed to ammonia gas (dry gas as he noted most precisely) leading to potassium-ammonia solutions. These studies were apparently never published, although he clearly described the unique features of the blue and bronze solutions.

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Kestner, N.R. (1988). Theoretical Studies of Electrons in Fluids. In: Kunhardt, E.E., Christophorou, L.G., Luessen, L.H. (eds) The Liquid State and Its Electrical Properties. NATO ASI Series, vol 193. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8023-8_5

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