On the invention of conductimetric titration.
In contrast to the earlier statement of one of the authors according to which conductimetric titration was invented by Küster and Grüters in 1903, it is shown that Ostwald made use of this analytical method as early as the nineties of the past century. Prior to Ostwald's work, however, papers appeared in which conductimetric curves were shown, with statements about their different characteristics in the case of reaction between weak and strong acids and bases. The first of these seems to be due to Kohlrausch [together with one of his co-workers, Kreichgauer (1885)]. It does not seem to have occurred to them, however, to use this phenomenon for the purposes of analytical chemistry, namely for titrimetry.
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Department of General and Analytical Chemistry, Technical University Budapest and Museum for Science and Technology, Budapest H-1521, Hungary.
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