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" Chemical analysis and synthesis go no farther than to the separation of particles one from another, and to their reunion. No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet... "
A Short History of the Progress of Scientific Chemistry in Our Own Times - Page 8
by Sir William Augustus Tilden - 1899 - 276 pages
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The British review and London critical journal

1812 - 564 pages
...a state of cohesion or combination, and joining those that were previously at a distance; and that we might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." We wish that...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 3

1812 - 528 pages
...at a distance; and that we might as well attempt to mtroduce a new planet into the solar system, or annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." We wish that all Mr. Dalton's postulata had been as undeniable. His ideas would then have possessed...
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Nature, Volume 1

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 694 pages
...finite ; just as in a given space of the universe, the number of stars and planets cannot be infinite. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet...to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." All substances, then, are composed of atoms ; and these attract each other, but at the same time keep their...
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Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Volumes 4-7

Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - 902 pages
...creation or destruction of matter," wrote Dalton, in his celebrated paper on " Chemical Synthesis," " is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as...existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." * Democritus knew nothing of hydrogen, but he saw as clearly and said as plainly as Dnlton that the...
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A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry

Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1884 - 558 pages
...the number of stars and planets ' cannot be infinite. ' Chemical analysis and synthesis go no further than to 'the separation of particles one from another,...introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihi' late one already in existence, as to create or destroy a 'particle of hydrogen. All the changes...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

1888 - 936 pages
...creation or destruction of matter," wrote Dalton, in his celebrated paper on " Chemical Synthesis," "is within the reach of chemical agency. We might...existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." * Democritus knew nothing of hydrogen, but he saw as clearly and said ns plainly as Dalton that the...
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Progress of Science in the Century

John Arthur Thomson - 1903 - 576 pages
...The doctrine of the Quaker chemist depended partly on the following results of experience : — " Xo new creation or destruction of matter is within the...existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen " (Dalton, after Lavoisier). In a chemical compound the different constituents are always present in...
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Whithout special title

Robert Hart Bradbury - 1903 - 546 pages
...to exist. As John Dalton, the founder of the atomic theory in its present form, remarked in 1808 : " We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet...existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." Hence the law of the indestructibility of matter. Each atom is conceived as indestructible, and, since...
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The Study of Chemical Composition: An Account of Its Method and Historical ...

Ida Freund - 1904 - 682 pages
...shown to them, where the body has gone to, and into what it has been received." BACON, cir. 1623. " We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet...annihilate one already in existence as to create or destroy one particle of hydrogen." D ALTON, 1808. SCIENTIFIC work of a very high order is always characterised...
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The Library of Original Sources, Volume 8

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 618 pages
...finite; just as in a given space of the universe, the number of stars and planets cannot be infinite. Chemical analysis and synthesis go no farther than...the solar system, or to annihilate one already in eixstence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen. All the changes we can produce, consist...
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