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FROM the earliest times there have existed two opposed views of the constitution of homogeneous mixtures. According to one view, the mixture was in reality as in appearance homogeneous. The elements composing it disappeared as such and were replaced by an entirely new thing, the mixture, from which, however, by appropriate treatment the original elements might be regenerated. According to the other view, the homogeneity was only apparent, and due to the feebleness of our senses. Each element consisted ultimately of atoms, which in the mixture retained their individual character, being mingled, but in no sense fused.
Le Mixte et la Combinaison Chimique: Essai sur l'Évolution d'une Idée.
By E. Duhem. Pp. 207. (Paris, 1902.) Price fr. 3.50.
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Le Mixte et la Combinaison Chimique: Essai sur l'Évolution d'une Idée . Nature 67, 29 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067029a0
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