Then the charged positive ions travel in the direction of the electromotive force and the negative ions in the opposite direction.

On reaching the electrodes they yield up to them the charges they carry, and thus pass from the state of ion into that of ordinary atom.

Moreover, for the solution to remain in equilibrium, the vanished ions must be immediately replaced by others, and thus the state of ionisation of the electrolyte remains constant and its conductivity persists.
All the peculiarities of electrolysis are capable of interpretation: the phenomena of the transport of ions, the fine experiments of M.
Bouty, those of Professor Kohlrausch and of Professor Ostwald on various points in electrolytic conduction, all support the theory.

The verifications of it can even be quantitative, and we can foresee numerical relations between conductivity and other phenomena.

The measurement of the conductivity permits the number of molecules dissociated in a given solution to be calculated, and the number is thus found to be precisely the same as that arrived at if it is wished to remove the disagreement between reality and the anticipations which result from the theory of Professor Van t' Hoff.