On the liquefied hydrides of phosphorus, sulphur, and the halogens, as conducting solvents.—Part I.

Abstract

Ammonia, water, and hydrofluoric acid, are the only hydrides of the elements which have been systematically investigated with respect to their solvent properties, and in particular with respect to their power of forming electrically conducting solutions. With the object of extending our knowledge of the properties of these hydrogen compounds, when liquefied, and in the hope that more light might thereby be thrown on the question of ionic dissociation, the investiga­tion, of which this is a brief abstract, has been undertaken.