Brian Salzberg Comments

Dear Bob;
   I read your manuscript on Mass Action and Conservation of Charge. I liked it a lot. There are a very small number of corrections that you should make (of a non-scientific nature.) They are:
1)    Page 3, line 10: You refer first to "Conservation of Charge and Conservation of Mass", but, then call them "foundations of their fields: Chemistry and Physics. You mean to say: "Physics and Chemistry, respectively." Field need to be reversed, and "respectively" added to remove ambiguity (as in both in Chemistry? Both in Physics? One in each?....)
2)    Page 3, line 36: I don't like calling these "bio-ions Na....." Sounds like H, P, S, Mg, Fe, Co, Cu, ....are NOT!
3)    Page 3, bottom: "goal" is the subject of the first three sentences...
4)    Page 4, line 4: Leave out "in mind".
5)    Page 6, line 11: Should read: "Only in these symmetrical circumstances..."
6)    Page 8, footnote: "Casmir effect" should be "Casimir effect" or, maybe, "Casimir Effect"
7)    Page 10, line 27: Should read: "...Maxwell's equations do not allow sunlight...."
8)    Page 11, line 28: Should read: "...a one percent excess of charge in a person at arm's length..."
9)    Page 11, line 32: Should read: "A one percent deviation in density of mass has a tiny effect...."
10)  Page 12, line 12: Should read: "...(because the input...."
11)  Page 13, line 15: comma missing after [54]
12)  Page 15, line 36: Bad sentence! What are "Interruptions in current flow meters from......?
13)  Page 16, 5th paragraph: Better to say: "....correct electrical theory of the then undergraduate [42,43] and later Nobel laureate, Alan Hodgkin....."
14)  Page 18, paragraph 4 under Variational methods....: Better to say: ""it is a book not noted for emotional content, but which still gives a glimpse..."
15)  Page 18, last paragraph: "In my view" is used twice in successive sentences.
16)  Page 19, line 11: In "Rosenfeld's DFT"...Spell out DFT (presumably Density Function Theory).
17)  Page 19, last paragraph: "in my view" is superfluous. Period after "transferable theories."

                             Fondly,
                                Brian

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Brian M. Salzberg, Ph.D.
Associate Editor, Biophysical Journal
Associate Editor, Neurophotonics
Professor of Neuroscience
   & Professor of Physiology
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University of Pennsylvania
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