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THE magnificent experimental methods devised by MM. Cailletet and Pictet have already begun to increase the number of the “Constants of Nature.” M. Pictet, although in a neck-and-neck race he was beaten by Cailletet in the liquefaction of hydrogen, has left his competitor in the rear with regard to a result of the first importance on the density of oxygen. The noble rivalry between the École Normale Supérieure of Paris and the Atelier de Physique of Geneva bids fair not only to continually increase in interest, but to become the central feature in the progress of physical science for some time.
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The Density of Liquid Oxygen . Nature 17, 217 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017217a0
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