“…Theories of the electroviscosity of solid suspensions in electrolytes have been developed, each being able to handle some but not all of the above five variables (Smoluchowski, 1916;Henry, 1931;Sumner and Henry, 1931;Bull, 1932;Krasny-Ergen, 1936;Overbeck, 1943;Booth, 1950a,b;Street, 1958;Chan et al ., 1966;StoneMasui and Watillon, 1968;Whitehead, 1969;StoneMasui and Watillon, 1970;Russel, 1976;Seville, 1977;Russel, 1978a,b;O'Brien and White, 1978;Lever, 1979;Sherwood, 1980;Watterson and White, 1981;O'Brien, 1983;Hinch and Sherwood, 1983;Honig et al ., 1990;Mangelsdorf and White, 1990;Dukhin and van de Ven, 1993;Sherwood et al ., 2000;Rubio-Hernandez et al ., 2001;Wada, 2005). Smoluchowski (1916) first noted that the electrical double layer surrounding a charged solid particle in a liquid led to an increase in the apparent viscosity η a of the system.…”