138 ABSOLUTE ATOMIC WEIGHT. 



XII. THE BANEFUL STASIAN ERRORS. 



I must be allowed here to add a few words and to give a 

 few figures which ought to convince any chemist of the 

 utter rotteness and darkness of the muddle of Stas. 



Here we have when stripped of the imaginary decimals 

 a great experimental work, giving most valuable results. 



These results are strictly and to the limit of the high pre- 

 cision of the most excellent analyst, Mr. William Crookes, in 

 absolute accordance 'with our standard atomic "weights* 



The analytical ratios determined by Mr. William Crookes 

 in 1873, f r thallium to its nitrate, are worthy of a Berzelius 

 endowed with the means at the service of Crookes. 



They leave no possibility of a doubt as to the result; the 

 absolute atomic weight of thallium is 204 exactly ; the lim- 

 iting degree of precision of actual determination is the 

 thousandth of a unit. 



If standing alone, for this one metal only, it would be 

 marvelous. But when we look back and see that the most 

 perfect chemical determinations on the purest materials 

 and by the greatest and most conscientious masters 

 Berzelius, Svanberg, Dumas, Erdmann, Marchand, Scheerer, 

 Seubert absolutely agree with this one single set of 'values , 

 our standard atomic weights, which here coincide also with 

 the results of Crookes of 1873 the evidence becomes abso- 

 lutely overwhelming. 



The possibility that such coincidences could be merely a 

 chance, is utterly and absolutely zero. 



These coincidences are the positive demonstration of a 

 general fact, a Law of Nature, a Thought of God. 



Our standard atomic weights, used as immutable stand- 

 ards in all our calculations, so that we stand on a firm 

 ground, on solid rock coincide throughout with the true 

 atomic weights determined by the Master Chemists. 



The Labyrinth of Stas. 



The atomic weights of Stas of his labvrinthine group: 

 N, Cl, Br, lo, S, Pb, Ag, Na, Ka are one and all utterly 

 false. 



