...that when placed in the order of their atomic weights, " the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." To this regularity he gave the name " The Law of Octaves." The development of this idea, as all chemists...

...and that immediately above it is 7 ; in other words, the eighth element starting from a given one sa kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music. The differences between the numbers of the other members of a group are frequently twice as great ; thus...

...classification. Mr. Newlands also pointed out that the eighth clement starting from a given one, was a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music,1 Mendelejeff has not only greatly developed this system of classification, but has afforded...

...the properties of the next group. "The eighth element" said Newlands "starting from a given element is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." In subsequent papers Newlands insisted on the general applicability of what he called the ' law of...

...found that when placed in the order of their atomic weights " the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." To this regularity he gave the name " The Law of Octaves." The development of this idea, as all chemists...

...of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." The discovery of Newlands of a, fact which later developed into the Periodic...that point in a long series of speculations at which chemists were beginning to grasp an idea after which they had been groping blindly for many years,...

...their atomic weights ' the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind 608 APBIL28, 1899.] 609 of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music.' This discovery of Newlands of a fact which later developed into the Periodic Law does not, however,...

...group and that immediately above it is seven; in other words, the eighth element starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." While this regularity appeared in the case of the elements of low atomic weight, it failed when applied...

...group and that immediately above it is 7; in other words, the eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." In the following year Newlands announced his " Law of Octaves " in a very brief note : * "If the elements...

...more similar to the first than the other elements." * As the eighth element, starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music, he called the regularity " The Law of Octaves." He did not succeed, however, in fully carrying out...