At 10:10 am 09/03/2006 -0500, Terry wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Grimer
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>> Goodness me - Maybe they are the first people to
>> have achieved demonstrable cold fusion. What a laugh. 8-)
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> Or, the first could have been metal plating companies
> who caused embrittlement of ferrite metal alloys.
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> Terry
Well spotted. Must be a common thing to discover that something
has been incipiently discovered before. Perhaps one should name
it the Newlands syndrome in honour of the man who should have
been credited with the discovery of the Periodic Table.
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On 1st March 1865, he described his ideas at a
lecture at the Chemical Society (a forerunner
of the Royal Society of Chemistry). The lack of
spaces for undiscovered elements and the placing
of two elements in one box were justifiably
criticised but an unfair suggestion from Professor
Foster was that he might have equally well listed
the elements alphabetically. Foster was on the
Publication Committee which refused to publish his
paper, supposedly because it was of a purely
theoretical nature. Humiliated, Newlands went
back to his work as chief chemist at a sugar
factory.
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Frank
