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Lavoisier, Dalton, Avogadro, Berzelius, Davy, and Gay-Lussac had all published by then.
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Yes, but they were Lavoisier, Dalton, Avogadro, Berzelius, Davy, and Gay-Lussac — controversial individuals, not “chemists”. They weren’t doing an established science, but inventing techniques as they needed then to test assertions about caloric and phlogiston from speculative natural philosophy. And their work was still controversial, not an application of established and accepted techniques. If something showed up that contradicted their theories the scientific establishment would say not “impossible!” but “I told you so”.
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To say "in 1665, a physicist could show that Kepler's laws implied an inverse-square law of universal gravitation" is a misleading statement, even though Newton was indeed a physicist.
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The transformation of cobalt into nickel would be as big an upheaval then as a confirmed example of, say, an object with measurable negative mass would be now, or a confirmed meaningful FTL signal. It would mean that the foundational theory was fundamentally flawed.
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How did helium get into this? Tritium's an isotope of hydrogen.
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