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DR. ARMSTRONG'S article in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 141, has brought to my mind some calculations I made more than a year ago to test a theory I had long previously entertained. Most of us who have paid much attention to the subject are agreed that the elements are capable, under exceptional circumstances, of profound chemical change. Mr. Lockyer is searching, with success as it appears, for contemporary evidence of this by examining the condition of the solar surface. The other line of evidence is historical, and turns mainly on the classification of the numerical values of chemical symbols. It is of course only with the latter that I have to deal.
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MILLS, E. The Nature of the Chemical Elements. Nature 23, 193 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023193b0
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