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On the accuracy of mineralogical measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Max H. Hey
Max H. Hey*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum of Natural History
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Almost any scientific periodical devoted to mineralogy will afford examples of the failure on the part of some workers to realize the limitations of the accuracy of their measurements. Often results are calculated to far more places of decimals than the measurements can possibly warrant. In other instances measurements which show differences quite outside the limits of probable error are regarded as being in good agreement; this last failing applies especially to chemical analyses, which occasionally provide decided evidence against the formula they are supposed to support.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 144 , March 1934 , pp. 495 - 500
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1934

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