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On the Gravimetric Composition of Water. A Preliminary Communication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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On the strength of Dumas' famous Recherche sur la Composition de l'Eau, and adopting the great master's own interpretation of his results, all chemists, until lately, agreed in assigning to the atomic weight of oxygen the value O = 16 (H = l ) ; and it is on the strength chiefly of the same experiments that many of us now hold that O = 15·96 is a closer approximation to the truth !
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page 320 note * Ann. Chim. Phys. (3), vol. viii. p. 189.
page 321 note * As already pointed out by Lothar Meyer and Seubert, Dumas' table of results includes quite a number of misprints. These, however, are all easily discovered, and set right without much fear of error.