In order to interpret certain facts, it has to be recognized that a part only of the molecules in a saline solution can be considered as conductors of electricity, and that by adding water the number of molecular conductors is increased.

This increase, too, though rapid at first, soon becomes slower, and approaches a certain limit which an infinite dilution would enable it to attain.

If the conducting molecules are the dissociated molecules, then the dissociation (so long as it is a question of strong acids and salts) tends to become complete in the case of an unlimited dilution.
The opposition of a large number of chemists and physicists to the ideas of M.Arrhenius was at first very fierce.

It must be noted with regret that, in France particularly, recourse was had to an arm which scholars often wield rather clumsily.

They joked about these free ions in solution, and they asked to see this chlorine and this sodium which swam about the water in a state of liberty.