Skeins shape

The transition from the corpuscular type to the free skein shape is known from denaturation of proteins. It is quite in keeping with the above argument that this denaturation can be brought about by, among other things, extreme acid or alkaline... 

Examples of typical coacervation are to be found among the "linear macromolecular colloids especially among those which belong to the highly viscous type This is an indication that it will be important for the theory of a typical coacervation to associate it with the skein shape of the macromolecule. With this disappears all serviceability of the scheme of Fig. 7 for an explanation of a typical coacervation in view of the fact that it is not only incorrect as regards the symbolisation of the hydration but also as regards the conception of the colloidal particles as solid spheres. 

There is no longer any symbolisatfon of the hydration in these schematic pictures. Fig. 8 a then represents the circumscribed volume of the skein shaped macromolecule in the original extremely dilute sol. This circumscribed volume is drawn as spherical, although the statistically most probable shape of the macromolecular skein is actually a general ellipsoid. 

The explanation of the partial miscibility phenomena will thus much rather have to be sought in the individually differing properties of the skein shaped kinds of macromolecule, which have an influence on the outcome of their struggle with each other to appropriate the water present in deficit as occlusion water. 

Element shape Cylindrical Skein Skein Skein Flat sheet... 

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