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Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ THE COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN BACTERIOLOGY PART II Downloaded from http://jb.asm.org/ on December 10, 2011 by deepdyve WlLLIAM MANSFIELD CLARK AND HERBERT A. LUBS From the Research Laboratories of the Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. SECTION VIII. THEORY OF S This is not a proper place for a detailed discussion of the theory of s.,3 For adequate treatment of the manifold aspects of the subject the special literature must be consulted. In the papers of Noyes (1910) and Bjerrum (1915) will be found discussions and references to the literature bearing upon many of the theoretical aspects of the present discussion. The treatment in these papers has been developed chiefly with reference to the theory of titration, and it may therefore be profitable to review very briefly a few of the more important principles involved in this other use of s in order that those not familiar with the subject may gain an orderly