Review of the work of P. P. v. Weymarn. "To the doctrine of states of matter"

Abstract

Essay by v. Weymarn “To the Doctrine of the States of Matter” represents the first chapter of the work he conceived and partly already carried out on the structure of the material based on the data obtained by studying the so-called "colloidal" state of bodies. Weimarn discovered a universal way to obtain all kinds of crystalline substances (crystalloids) into the so-called colloidal and amorphous state forced him to put forward the position that both states are inherent in all bodies and depend only on the degree of fragmentation of the substance, and therefore on the relative development of the surface and that, further, there is no other difference between the crystalloid and colloid-amorphous state of the body, and make an attempt to revise our ideas about the nature of matter, based on the above principles.