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- adjective Of or pertaining to Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848),
Swedish chemist , who devised the modern technique ofchemical formula notation.
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Berzelius + -an
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Hence the compound radical which united successively with these two elements must itself be at one time electro-positive, at another electro-negative -- a seeming inconsistency which threw the entire Berzelian theory into disfavor.
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