I. A Synoptic scale of chemical equivalents
@article{WollastonIAS, title={I. A Synoptic scale of chemical equivalents}, author={William Hyde Wollaston}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London}, pages={1 - 22} }
When the nature of any saline compound is proposed as the subject of inquiry to an analytic chemist, the questions that occur for his consideration are so varied and so numerous, that he will seldom be disposed to undertake a series of original experiments for the purpose of satisfying his inquiries, so long as he can rely upon the accuracy of those results that have been obtained by the labour of others, who have preceded him in this field of patient investigation. If, for instance, the salt…
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