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The Salts in Natural Waters

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I AM much indebted to Mr. Perry Coste for his clear and candid answer to my question. It is exactly the answer which I anticipated. The actual facts established by analysis are too often forced, by the arbitrary assumptions of the analytical chemist, to yield unwarrantable conclusions.

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HAYWARD, R. The Salts in Natural Waters. Nature 45, 177 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045177a0

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