"[This] may prove to be the beginning of……" — Frederick Soddy
"[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number."
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Frederick Soddy
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34 Quotes by Frederick Soddy
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