An Introduction to Electrochemistry

The object of this book is to provide an introduction to electrochemistry in its present state of development. An attempt has been made to explain the fundamentals of the subject as it stands today, devoting little or no space to the consideration of theories or arguments that have been discarded or greatly modified. There have been four developments in the two decades prior to the writing of this book that have had an important influence on electrochemistry. They are the activity concept, the interionic attraction theory, the proton-transfer theory of acids and bases, and the consideration of electrode reactions as rate processes.