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DURING the last decade I have accumulated some new facts which I believe are of fundamental significance. Certain theoretical considerations require that the chemical formulæ of all true mineral species composed of any of the first twenty-one elements of the periodic system should obey the following simple equation, where M is the molecular number (i.e. the total atomic number in the compound), the number of atoms, excluding hydrogen, and n any integer.
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TIBYRIÇÁ, L. Chemical Formulæ of Mineral Compounds. Nature 119, 815 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119815b0
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