 | William Nicholson - Science - 1810 - 844 pages
...Nothing, as I can judge, lias been advanced, which has the least reference to the first position, that when only one combination of two bodies can be obtained it must be binary. This therefore, which is the foundation of all the argument, must be regarded as a mere postulate,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Science - 1811 - 866 pages
...quoted, page 283, consistency of namely, that "when only one combination of two bodies first rule of can be obtained, it must be presumed to be a binary one, combination. unless some cause appear to the contrary"; and if this be established, the other three... | |
 | 1812 - 564 pages
...the potential mood, of examining the evidence upon which laws of such universal tendency are founded. 1st. When only one combination of two bodies can be...obtained, it must be presumed to be a binary one. 2d. When two combinations are observed, they must be presumed to be a binary and a ternary. 3d. When... | |
 | Science - 1813 - 520 pages
...truth, I conceive, will be readily admitted by every person who pays due attention to the subject: — 1st. When only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be presumed to be a Unary* one, unless some cause appear to the contrary. 2d. When two combinations are observed, they... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1814 - 516 pages
...truth, I conceive, will be readily admitted by every person who pays due attention to the subject: — 1st. When only one combination of two bodies can be...binary* one, unless some cause appear to the contrary. 2d. When two combinations are observed, they must be presumed to be a binary and a ternary. » By binary,... | |
 | William Higgins - Atomic theory - 1814 - 194 pages
...general riiles may be adopted as guides in all our investigations respecting chemical synthesis. 1 st. When only one combination of two bodies can be .obtained,...binary one, unless some cause appear to the contrary. 2d. When two combinations are observed, they must be presumed to be a binaiy and a ternary. •3d.... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Atomic weights - 1825 - 1052 pages
...rules, by Mr. Daiwhich he thinks we should be guided in our opinions respecting chemical synthesis. (1.) When only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be presumed to ta a binary one, unless some cause appear to die contrary. ' (2.) When two combinations are observed,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...numbers the weights of bodies believed to be elementary. He announced it as a general rule, that ' when only one combination of two bodies can be obtained,...binary one, unless some cause appear to the contrary.' Consistently with this law, and correctly at the time it was written, Dr. Dalton regarded water as... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...importance, though it must be admitted. that it contravenes the rule laid down by Dr. Dalton, that ' when only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be presumed to be a binary one.' The case in which the second portion of oxygen in an oxide, instead of being equal to the first, is... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 1102 pages
...importance, though it must be admitted that it contravenes the rule laiil down by Dr. Dalton, that ' when only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be presumed to be a binary one.' The case in which the second portion of oxygen in an oxide, instead of being equal to the first, is... | |
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When only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be presumed to be a binary one, unless some cause appear to the contrary. 
