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What chemists, for convenience, call elementary substances, are merely substances which they have thus far failed to decompose; but, bearing in mind past experiences, they do not dare to say that they are absolutely undecomposable.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

If we proceed on the supposition that the so-called elements are compounds, and if this law, if not universal, holds of undecomposable substances as of decomposable, then there are two implications.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

The earliest impressions which the mind can assimilate are those given to it by the undecomposable sensations, resistance, light, sound, etc.

From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Philosophy has also this disadvantage, that it possesses very many undecomposable concepts and undemonstrable propositions, while mathematics has only a few such.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Extraction.—Calcium oxide or lime has been known from a very remote period, and was for a long time considered to be an elementary or undecomposable earth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various