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Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
Oxygen. Hydrogen. Water. 
1 0-126 85 1-126 85 
8 1-014 8 = “H” 
15 767 = “ 0” 2 = “ H 2 ” 
The results of our own work enable me to say that the true value 
of “ H ” (0 = 16) is probably not quite so high as 1-0148, but it is 
higher than the 1*0024 demanded by the customary “0 = 15-96.” 
I venture to hope that the publication of this notice will cause 
those chemists who hitherto ( after having become convinced that 
O : H is less than 16) have persisted in referring their atomic 
weights to H= 1, will give up this absurd practice, and, like other 
people, adopt 0 = 16 as their standard. The sixteenth part of the 
atomic weight of oxygen, surely, is as good a unit as one could 
desire to have. 
