NITROGEN BY CHEMICAL MEANS. 185 



To be absolutely beyond reproach, I shall take this 

 analytical ratio from the Smithsonian tables themselves, 

 stating the page of the " Constants of Nature," of 1897, 

 where they can be found. 



All calculations have been carefully made with seven 

 place logarithms (Schron's, igth edition, Braunschweig, 

 1881). I do not think any error has crept in; if so, I shall 

 gladly accept the report for revision and proper acknowl- 

 edgement. 



The limited space, because of limited means at my 

 disposal, and the limited time, because my age, does not 

 encourage further waste of my time on the greatest scientific 

 humbug of modern days, and compels me to limit this work 

 to the tivo most famous or as I must say, scientifically 

 infamous determinations, namely, those depending on the 

 synthesis of silver nitrate, and the relation of the silver 

 nitrate to potassium chloride. 



These methods are generally regarded as the most famous 

 by all ; the first most assuredly is always represented as such, 

 and was the very one so proclaimed by Stas himself, when 

 he challenged the chemists of the world in the sixties and 

 again in the eighties. The second is next in standing. 



The special values, required in our reductions, we take, 

 as stated, from Clarke, whose absurd unit we will have to 

 use, namely, his pretended hydrogen unit, which practically 

 means (1. c., p. 33) 



O = 15.879- 



The value is pretended to be affected by a " probable 

 error" of only 0.0003. 



Clarke (1. c., p. 33) says that the above value " will be 

 used throughout this work," the Constants of Nature, 1897. 

 So we have to use it ourselves for this once. 



May the God of Truth pardon me for basing these calcu- 

 lations on official lies and scientific fraud. I do so exclu- 

 sively and solely to thereby prove them to be such lies and 

 frauds, in order to destroy them and to blot them out from 

 the face of Chemical Science which they have disfigured 

 and disgraced for forty long years. 



