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Dalton's Life
100
Tiny particles that make up the elements.
What are atoms?
100
All atoms of a given element are ___ in mass and properties, according to Dalton.
What is identical?
100
Name one reason it was important.
1. Provided logical explanation of concepts 2. Led way to new fields of experimentation 3. Basis for what we now know about atoms 4. Made modern chemistry and physics possible
100
Dalton's job before doing his work on the atom and other scientific studies.
What is a school teacher?
200
A combination of 2 or more elements.
What is a compound?
200
Dalton borrowed the Law of ____ ____ from Proust in his theory.
What is Definite Proportion?
200
Dalton presented his theory this year.
What is 1803?
200
The first thing Dalton published a paper on.
What is colorblindness?
300
The rearrangement of atoms.
What is a chemical reaction?
300
Dalton claimed an atom was a ____ structure.
What is solid?
300
In this point of his atomic theory Dalton disagreed with Democritus.
What is ‘all atoms of different elements are different’?
300
He had a certain fascination with this particular science.
What is meteorology?
400
Another name for colorblindness, given because of Dalton's work on the subject.
What is Daltonism?
400
All matter is composed of ____
What are atoms?
400
Because of our knowledge of nuclear fission, this is the point of Dalton’s atomic theory that is no longer totally accepted
What is nuclear fission?
400
Detailed this every day for 57 years in his journal.
What is the weather?
500
law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation.
What is the Law of Multiple Proportions?
500
All atoms can be destroyed by ____.
What are nuclear reactions?
500
These parts of Dalton's theory are true.
What is all matter is made up of atoms, compounds are made out of a combination of 2 or more different types of atoms in a fixed, simple ratio, and a chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms?
500
Joined this group when he moved to Manchester and it allowed him to study and conduct his own research.
What is the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society?
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