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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: to see established. But from all these difficulties emerged the
golden truth, that under every variety of circumstances the
decompositions of the voltaic current are as definite in their
character as those chemical combinations which gave birth to the
atomic theory. This law of Electro-chemical Decomposition ranks,
in point of importance, with that of Definite Combining Proportions
in chemistry.
Footnotes to Chapter 6
[1] I copy these words from the printed abstract of a Friday
evening lecture, given by myself, because they remind me of
Faraday's voice, responding to the utterance by an emphatic 'hear!
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