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PROUT, WILLIAM (1785-1850) , English
born
Gloucestershire
April
life
chemistry , and carried out many analyses of the products of living organisms, among them being one of the gastric juice which, at the end of 1823, resulted in the notable discovery that the acid contents of the stomach contain hydrochloric acid which is separable by distillation
Philosophy a paper On the relation between the specific gravities of bodies in their gaseous state and the weights of their atoms," in which he calculated that the atomic weights of a number of the elements are multiples of that of hydrogen; and in a second paper published in the same periodical the following year he suggested that the 'irpCurrt An of the ancients is realized in hydrogen, from which the other elements are formed by some process of condensation or grouping. This view, generally known as " Prout's hypothesis," at least had the merit of stimulating inquiry, and many of the most careful determinations of atomic weights undertaken since its promulgation have been provoked by the desire to test its validity.End of Article: PROUT, WILLIAM (1785-1850) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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