AUTHOR'S NOTE This manuscript documents a breakthrough in the important area in which physics, chemistry and biology meet: the area of aqueous solutions. Unexpectedly the breakthrough, as embodied in the description of periodic hydrational potentiality, yielded an explanation of the origin of the system of irregular fractional atomic weight values held in high esteem in contemporary chemistry. Since any revaluation inevitably would become controversial it has been considered necessary, even at the obvious price of repetitive tabulations, to utilize in so important a documentation the safest...

AUTHOR'S NOTE Chemical science has enjoyed a world of challenge in appraising the nature and inter-relationships of the elements, but for an emergent biological science it is especially important to consider the relationships of the elements and their compounds to an aqueous solvent. Hydrational potentiality is the ionic attribute which organic nature, from its earliest amoeboid beginnings to its present production of astounding types of intellectuals, has used extensively in its embodiment of the precious fire called life. To biology as the life science hydration thus is a matter of most...