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PROF. THORPE'S review of the work of Mendeleeff suggests to me a question I have several times previously thought of putting, viz. whether chemists are not permitting themselves to be run away with by a smattering of quasi-mathematics and an over-pressing of empirical formulæ. I do not make the accusation; I merely put the question as one suggested by an incomplete and superficial perusal of one or two recent memoirs.
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LODGE, O. Use or Abuse of Empirical Formulæ, and of Differentiation, by Chemists.. Nature 40, 273 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040273a0
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