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Those [53] who have read the authors of the seventeenth century and, particularly, the eighteenth century, will be quite surprised to hear that Proust is credited with establishing the law of definite proportions. All these authors seem to admit, and several formally state, the following truth: when two substances combine together, the mass of the one stands in a fixed relation to the mass of the other.
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Duhem, P. (2002). The Law of Definite Proportions. In: Mixture and Chemical Combination. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 223. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2292-6_6
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