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  2. John Dalton - Wikipedia

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    John Dalton FRS (/ ˈ d ɔː l t ən /; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. [1] He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry.

  3. Atomism - Wikipedia

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    John Dalton's alternative formulae for water and ammonia. And then he proceeded to give a list of relative weights in the compositions of several common compounds, summarizing: [73] 1st. That water is a binary compound of hydrogen and oxygen, and the relative weights of the two elementary atoms are as 1:7, nearly; 2nd.

  4. History of molecular theory - Wikipedia

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    John Dalton's union of atoms combined in ratios (1808) Similar to these views, in 1803 John Dalton took the atomic weight of hydrogen, the lightest element, as unity, and determined, for example, that the ratio for nitrous anhydride was 2 to 3 which gives the formula N 2 O 3. Dalton incorrectly imagined that atoms "hooked" together to form ...

  5. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    Example 1 — tin oxides: Dalton identified two types of tin oxide. One is a grey powder that Dalton referred to as "the protoxide of tin", which is 88.1% tin and 11.9% oxygen. The other is a white powder which Dalton referred to as "the deutoxide of tin", which is 78.7% tin and 21.3% oxygen.

  6. 19th century in science - Wikipedia

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    See more about this in John Dalton. John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry. In 19th century, John Dalton proposed the idea of atoms as small indivisible particles which together can form compounds. Although the concept of the atom dates back to the ideas ...

  7. History of subatomic physics - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, John Dalton, through his work on stoichiometry, concluded that each chemical element was composed of a single, unique type of particle. Dalton and his contemporaries believed those were the fundamental particles of nature and thus named them atoms, after the Greek word atomos, meaning "indivisible" [3] or "uncut". However ...

  8. Natural philosophy - Wikipedia

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    A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit. Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe while ignoring any supernatural influence.

  9. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The law was independently discovered by British natural philosopher John Dalton by 1801, although Dalton's description was less thorough than Gay-Lussac's. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] In 1804 Gay-Lussac made several daring ascents of over 7,000 meters above sea level in hydrogen-filled balloons—a feat not equaled for another 50 years—that allowed him to ...