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I HAVE to express my indebtedness to Mr. Castell-Evans (NATURE, March 25, p. 486) for drawing my attention to Prof. Meldola's valuable memoir of 1878. Occasionally I cannot help passing over a paper of great interest; and, much to my regret, I did not read Prof. Meldola's until to-day. According to his theory there is “... actual combustion taking place in the atmosphere of a slowly-cooling star previously at a temperature of dissociation.” The previous existence of elements is assumed throughout the memoir; and it is these which undergo “actual combustion,” and of course give rise to compounds capable of the dissociation referred to. Prof. Meldola proceeds to show that dissociation of compounds and actual combustion of elements may very well lead to a “periodically unstable chemical equilibrium.”
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MILLS, E. Variable Stars. Nature 33, 514 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033514a0
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