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On the Equivalents of the Elementary Bodies Considered as Representing an Arithmetical Progression Deducible from Mendeleeff's Tables

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THE relatively quick succession of new elementary bodies which has marked the last decade of scientific progress and which must be considered as the result of chemical research, pioneered and guided by spectroscopic study, has brought very prominently into notice Mendeleeff's most remarkable law of the periodicity of the chemical elements.

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  1. See Gauden, "Le Monde des Atomes", p. 32 (1873); also NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 56, "On the Physical Aspect of the Vortex-Atom Theory", by S. Tolver Preston .

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O'REILLY, J. On the Equivalents of the Elementary Bodies Considered as Representing an Arithmetical Progression Deducible from Mendeleeff's Tables . Nature 24, 274–277 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024274b0

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