Swelling and peptization of fiber in concentrated aqueous solutions of salts, as a result of the action of compressed hydration water of these salts on the hydrolyzing dispersoid

Abstract

Working in 1902 with concentrated solutions of Mn(CNS)3 and Ba(CNS)2, and in 1905-1906 with a number of concentrated solutions of especially highly soluble salts in order to obtain jellies of crystalline substances, I noticed that under the influence of these salts, the filters swell and slime so much that they slip through the narrow tube of the funnel in the form of a more or less gelatinous lump. According to my theory of peptization (1907-1908), fiber is peptized because at a certain high concentration of salt and at a certain high temperature it should be converted into some truly soluble compound. This theory above (see article) can be generalized to any dispersoid that hydrolyzes in a soluble compound.