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stituents of the triple muriate of palladium as 

 follows : 



Oxide of palladium 3-52 1 ^ 



,, . .- > 5-555 muriate of palladium, 



Muriatic acid 2-035 j 



Potash 2-64 \ A . 



_ > 4- 166 muriate of potash. 

 Muriatic acid 1 -526 J 



Water . . . 0-279 

 10-000 



This estimate would give us the constitution of 

 the salt in atomic numbers as follows : 



1 atom muriate of palladium = 12-625 

 1 atom muriate of potash = 10-625 



f ths of an atom water . = 0-675 



23-925 



Had the quantity of water amounted to 1 atom 

 instead of fths of an atom, the analysis would 

 have been more satisfactory. 



The reader will observe that with respect to 

 palladium, I was obliged to rest satisfied witli 

 the preliminary experiments which I made on 

 the other metals, before attempting the analysis 

 from which the atomic weights are deduced. 

 These preliminary trials I have thought it need- 

 less to state in the other sections ; but my stock 

 of palladium having been exhausted by them, I 

 was under the necessity of drawing my conclu- 

 sions respecting this metal from them entirely. 

 The above analysis, (if analysis it can be called) 



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