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...interesting extract from a letter which he received from Baron Liebig : — " It is not certain that Prout's law may not be true for oxygen, nitrogen and carbon,...weight, stand in a simple numerical relation to each 1852. 3 other. The atomic weights of silicium, cobalt, strontium, tin, arsenic and lead, are in the...

...being necessary to assume, as a consequence, that other bodies behave similarly, — that is, that their atomic weight must be exactly multiples by whole...numerical relation to each other. The atomic weights of silicum, cobalt, strontium, tin, arsenic, and lead, are in the same ratio as the numbers 1 : 2 : 3...

...and carbon, without its being necessary to assume, as a consequence, that their atomic weight must bo exactly multiples by whole numbers of the atomic weight...bodies¡ but it may be true of certain groups, whose numbers, in respect to atomic weight, stand In a simple nninercial relation to each other. The atomic...

...without it being necessary to assume, as a consequence, that other bodies behave similarly, that is, that their atomic weight must be exactly multiples by whole...arsenic and lead, are in the same ratio as the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7- We do not see the necessity of this relation, but only the possibility. Why should...

...true for oxygen, nitrogen and carbon, without its being necessary to assume, as a consequence, that their atomic weight must be exactly multiples by whole...of hydrogen. The law is certainly not true of all botlies, but it may be true of certain groupe, whoso numbers, in respect to atomic weight, stand in...