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  • A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.454
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