On the strength of Dumas' famous Recherche sur la Composition de l'Eau, and adopting the great master's own interpretation of his results, all chemists, until lately, agreed in assigning to the atomic weight of oxygen the value O = 16 (H = l ) ; and it is on the strength chiefly of the same experiments that many of us now hold that O = 15·96 is a closer approximation to the truth !
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