Equivalent-weights Sentence Examples
In place of the relative molecular weights, attention was concentrated on relative atomic or equivalent weights.
From the results obtained by Laurent and Gerhardt and their predecessors it immediately followed that, while an element could have but one atomic weight, it could have several equivalent weights.
He found that the amounts of the substances liberated in each cell were proportional to the chemical equivalent weights of those substances.
The formulation of the atomic theory by John Dalton gave a fresh impetus to the development of quantitative analysis; and the determination of combining or equivalent weights by Berzelius led to the perfecting of the methods of gravimetric analysis.
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