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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that…
• There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so…
• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical…
• I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in…
• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion…
• Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which…
• We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete…
• I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted…
• The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the…

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