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produces, I believe, considerably more than this 60,000 tons 

 every year, you will easily understand that if we could 

 ascertain the total amount of artificial manure manufactured 

 and sold in this country in twelve months, the amount of 

 money which that would represent would be something 

 prodigious. Thus, gentlemen, science is prostituted ! Now, 

 however, these quasi-oh&mi^i^ who did not know better, and 

 also those who did or ought to have known better, but would 

 not take the time required by a really reliable process, have 

 no excuse, for — thanks to Klaproth, Peligot, Julet, and others 

 — we have now a process for estimating phosphoric acid 

 which gives rapid and tolerably accurate results — I refer to 

 the volumetric estimation, in which uranium is used in the 

 form of nitrate. 



