The belief has developed that polymer molecules, in dilute solution a t least, are always molecularly dispersed, because of the lack of refuting evidence and the attractive simplicity of the assumption. I t is the purpose of this paper, however, to show that stable association of polymer molecules in solution exists under certain conditions. The work is essentially divided into two parts: in the first part the association of polyvinyl chloride in different solvent media is studied in detail by several different methods; in the second part there are described much less detailed experiments, mostly concerned with demonstrating that the stable association of polymer molecules is a general phenomenon when the system is near the point of phase separation.Wisconsin, May 28-29, 1946.
England.' Presented a t the Twentieth National Colloid Symposium, which was he Id a t Madison,