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WE are grateful to F. B. Strauss1 for the interest he has shown in our paper on the above subject2, and for his trouble in giving the list of references. Our statement to which he refers was ambiguous, but this was due to editorial reduction to economize paper. In our original manuscript we stated: "We originated this unpacked tube technique for the ultimate analysis of coal. . . . So far as we are aware this was the first time it had been demonstrated that carbon and hydrogen in organic compounds could be determined by combustion in an unpacked tube. . . . we have now sought to apply our technique to the micro scale." This was altered to the form referred to by Strauss, to which we did not object since the ultimate analysis of coal is taken to imply principally the determination of carbon and hydrogen, and it has been customary to include the sulphur determination with the proximate analysis3.
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BELCHER, R., SPOONER, C. A New Technique for the Ultimate Microanalysis of Organic Compounds. Nature 153, 24 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153024a0
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