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Excerpt from The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 1913, Vol. 107: With Which Is Incorporated the "Chemical Gazette"; A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts, and Manufactures
Considering that the atomic weights of thirty-two elements only are known with sufficient accuracy to be used for this second curve, its general form agrees very well with that of the first curve; there is the same well marked rise as integral values are approached, and the intermediate maximum is also well-marked, although it coincides with the value 04 instead of with 05. This fact may, however, well be due to the comparative lack of data.
It appears from the above considerations that there is a marked tendency for atomic weights to approximate to values which are multiples of unity, or, to a less degree, of 05, when the present unit, that is one-sixteenth of the atom of oxygen, is used when the older standard, namely, the atom of hydrogen, is used as unit these relations no longer hold good.
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