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  2. Law of multiple proportions - Wikipedia

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    The following examples come from Dalton's own books A New System of Chemical Philosophy (in two volumes, 1808 and 1817): 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 .

  3. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    Mendeleev found these patterns validated atomic theory because it showed that the elements could be categorized by their atomic weight. Inserting a new element into the middle of a period would break the parallel between that period and the next, and would also violate Dalton's law of multiple proportions. [37] Mendeleev's periodic table from 1871.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Atomism - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1826 when Sir Humphry Davy presented Dalton the Royal Medal from the Royal Society, Davy said that the theory only became useful when the atomic conjecture was ignored. [75] English chemist Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie in 1866 published the first part of his Calculus of Chemical Operations [ 76 ] as a non-atomic alternative to ...

  7. History of the periodic table - Wikipedia

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    Dalton's 1806 list of known elements by atomic weight. In 1808–10, British natural philosopher John Dalton published a method by which to arrive at provisional atomic weights for the elements known in his day, from stoichiometric measurements and reasonable inferences. Dalton's atomic theory was adopted by many chemists during the 1810s and ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Chemistry: A Volatile History - Wikipedia

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    Dalton's atomic symbols, from his own books. Scientists had recently discovered that when elements combine to form compounds, they always do so in the same proportions, by weight. John Dalton thought that for this to happen, each element had to be made of its own unique building blocks, which he called atoms .