INFLUENCE OF CAPILLARITY ON CHEMICAL-STABILITY AND OF ELECTRIC-FIELD ON SURFACE-TENSION NEAR THE CRITICAL-POINT

In the present paper, we show that the stability of a chemical reactio n occurring in a capillary layer depends on surface properties. A chem ical reaction unstable in a bulk phase may be stabilized in a surface layer and, vice versa, a stable reaction in a bulk phase may be unstab le when occurring at an interface. The second part of this paper shows how an applied electric field magi be responsible for a shift of the critical point through the effect on surface tension.