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Harold F. Walton

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder. Coauthor of Ion Exchange in Analytical Chemistry.

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Ion-exchange reaction, any of a class of chemical reactions between two substances (each consisting of positively and negatively charged species called ions) that involves an exchange of one or more ionic components. Ions are atoms, or groups of atoms, that bear a positive or negative electric…
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