Paper, 'On the atomic weight of titanium' by T E [Thomas Edward] Thorpe

Description

Thorpe writes: 'The stoïchiometrical quantities which we ordinarily term atomic weights are not only the fundamental constants of chemical calculations; their relations as mere numbers are of the highest significance in connexion with our conceptions concerning the essential nature of matter. The recent publications of Becker and Clarke in America, and of Lothar Meyer and Seubert in Germany, have served to demonstrate on how slight an experimental basis a large number—the greater proportion, it must be confessed—of the accepted values of these constants really depend.'

Annotations in ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 7 November 1883. Read 22 November 1883.

A version of this paper was published in volume 36 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the atomic weight of titanium'.

Reference number

PP/4/4

Earliest possible date

1883

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

6 pages

Format

Manuscript