Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, or 2, or at most 3...The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gases on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.


Mémoires de la Société d'Arcueil, 1809, 2, 233–4. Trans. Foundations of the Molecular Theory, Alembic Club Reprint, no. 4 (1950)

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Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is ...

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is ...

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is ...

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is ...