Ten years after the law of mass action was propounded by Guldberg and Waage, Willard Gibbs, [9] Professor of Physics in Yale University, showed how, in a perfectly general manner, free from all hypothetical assumptions as to the molecular condition of the participating substances, all cases of equilibrium could be surveyed and grouped into classes, and how similarities in the behaviour of apparently different kinds of systems, and differences in apparently similar systems, could be explained. — from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay
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