English Explanatory Dictionary

Gibbs-Donnan effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The uneven distribution of charged particles across the two sides of a semipermeable membrane.

Word forms

Gibbs-Donnan effect Gibbs-Donnan effects

Etymology

Named after American Josiah Willard Gibbs who proposed it in 1878 and the British chemist Frederick G. Donnan who studied it experimentally in 1911.

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