 ... the eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music.  Elementary Chemistry - Page 265by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Charles Slater - 1887 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Campbell Brown - Chemistry - 1913 - 736 pages
...of the relations between atomic weights, said : " The eighth element, starting from •a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." For example — An octave starting with hydrogen ends with oxygen. An octave starting with fluorine... | |
 | Frederick Hutton Getman - 1913 - 498 pages
...third; and so on, or to employ Newlands' own words : " The eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." This peculiar relationship, termed by Newlands the law of octaves, is brought out in the following... | |
 | Alfred Walter Stewart - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1922 - 450 pages
...the order of their equivalents (atomic weights) . . . the eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of a octave in music ". He also suggested that from his scheme it was possible to predict the existence... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1898 - 1144 pages
...when plnced in the order of their atomic weights, ' the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music.' To this regularity he gave the name ' The Law of Octaves.' The development of this idea, as all chemists... | |
 | Science - 1901 - 624 pages
...and that immediately above it is seven; in other words, the eighth element starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." While this regularity appeared in the case of the elements of low atomic weight, it failed when applied... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 940 pages
...when placed in the order of their atomic weights, " the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music." To this regularity he gave the name " The Law of Octaves." The development of this idea, as all chemists... | |
 | Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, Theodore Andrea Cook - Mathematics - 1979 - 532 pages
...eighth, fifteenth, indeed every element seven above the lowest member of a group, was an approximate repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music. This is merely FIG. 384. — SPIEAL NEBULA IN CYGNt.'S (NGC 6992.) WE Wilson, Daramona, Westmeath,... | |
 | Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao - Chemistry - 2000 - 322 pages
...this observation, Newland postulated the Law of Octaves. The eighth element, starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music. What was the major drawback of the law of Octaves ? H Li 2 Be 3 B C N 6 O 1 4 5 7 Newland was the first... | |
 | Robert E. Haskell - Education - 2001 - 264 pages
...that the elements should be divided into octaves because each eighth element starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music. He in fact called this the Law of Octaves. At the time, his use of the octave analogy was met with... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - Science - 2001 - 604 pages
...one of several to seek such a regularity of spacing, "the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note in an octave of music." Newlands was probably the first to propose the idea of assigning each element... | |
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