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Newton's ideas on the structure of matter and their impact on eighteenth‐century chemistry: Some historical and methodological remarks

Pages 85-105 | Published online: 09 Jun 2008

Notes

  • 1691/92 . “ ‘The particles of acids are coarser than those of water and therefore less volatile; but they are much finer than those of earth, and therefore much less fixed than they.’ ” . 209 Newton

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