The inorganic electrolyte balance of a living cell may be regarded as a consequence of two types of processes, the one concerned with the passage of ions or ion-forming elements between cell and environment, and the other, the retention of certain ions in excess of others. Recent reviews (7,22) have stressed the importance of distinguishing between penetration and accumulation of ions. In practice, these categories have not been recognized as explicitly as might be desired.
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H. Burr Steinbach (1940) studied this question.
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