Abstract
SEVEN years after the publication of the first volume of Dalton's “New System of Chemical Philosophy,” and therefore at a time when the data from which atomic weights could be deduced were few and inaccurate, Prout promulgated the hypothesis that the atomic weights of all the elements are multiples of that of hydrogen.
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MUIR, M. Atomic Weights 1 . Nature 26, 271–272 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026271a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026271a0
