redetermination

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To produce them, an incalculable interplay of causes must be at work, each with its proper period and law of action. All the elements of the phenomenon are then in a perpetual state of flux, and absorb for their continual redetermination, the arduous and combined labours of many astronomers. Nor is this trouble superfluous.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition

It was revived, however, about 1840, by Dumas, whose great authority secured it a respectful hearing, and whose careful redetermination of the weight of carbon, making it exactly twelve times that of hydrogen, aided the cause. Subsequently Stas, the pupil of Dumas, undertook a long series of determinations of atomic weights, with the expectation of confirming the Proutian hypothesis.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4