Abstract
Two days after the publication of my letter in NATURE (p. 390), on the composition of water, I received the Manchester Report of the British Association, in which (p. 668) further experiments by Dr. A. Scott are reported. Dr. Scott has succeeded in reducing the amount of nitrogen present as impurity to 1 part in 15,000, and the ratio of hydrogen to oxygen which he calculates from the newer and more accurate experiments is 1.996 or 1.997 to 1.000. This ratio agrees very well with that deduced by me from the older experiments, but is considerably higher than the ratio previously adopted by Dr. Scott, and quoted by Prof. Thorpe in his article on the composition of water.
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YOUNG, S. The Composition of Water. Nature 37, 416–417 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037416c0
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