IN 1878 I read a paper to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in which I stated my opinion, based on the results of a considerable number of experiments, that chemical combination solution and suspension ...

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IN the older days, chemists were willing to think that, when they had said of a chemical occurrence, “It is a manifestation of the affinities of the reacting bodies,” they had given a fair explanation ...

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