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| | Combination by Volume: Gay-Lussac |
 | | M. Berthollet, who has analysed this salt, obtained by passing carbonic gas into the sub-carbonate, found that it was composed of 73.34 parts by weight of carbonic gas and 26.66 of ammonia gas. |
 | | But M. Berthollet, who thinks that combinations are made continuously, cites in proof of his opinion the acid sulphates, glass alloys, mixtures of various liquids,--all of which are compounds with very variable proportions, and he insists principally on the identity of the force which produces chemical compounds and solutions. |
 | | We must first of all admit, with M. Berthollet, that chemical action is exercised indefinitely in a continuous manner between the molecules of substances, whatever their number and ratio may be, and that in general we can obtain compounds with very variable proportions. |
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