“…As there is only one type of electricity with two poles, so probably oxygen and hydrogen are two manifestations of the same force inhabiting all bodies 147, p. ing that iodine were Ce^Oa, then chlorine must be designated CHsO, and I reduce this to HO, so I obtain H4O2, which equals 2 times H2O or water, or also equals H2O2, which is hydrogen peroxide, 4-2H (47, p. 74) ... . The atom of aluminum 28 [actually 27] is equal to that of silicon, which explains why plants, which live mainly on an aluminum soil, almost never contain aluminum oxide but, on the contrary, often silicon and always carbon in their tissues.…”