Determination of the Atomic Weight of Cadmium

The agreement of the separate determinations with each other is fairly close and the average of the two series of determinations is nearly the same. Huntington took great care in the purification of his material and in the carrying out of his method, which are strong arguments in favor of his work, yet his method is not as simple as could be desired where the nature of the work demands the greatest possible accuracy in all details and it also appears to be subject to some of the errors common to ordinary analytical operations.