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Dalton, John
[person]
English physicist, chemist and meteorologist born in Eaglesfield, Cumberland (1766-1844). Dalton published Experimental Essays on the Constitution of Mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam or Vapour from water and other liquids in different temperatures, both in a Torricellian vacuum and in air; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gasses by Heat, in which he details his theory of partial pressures in gas mixtures. He is most famous for his investigation of relative atomic weights, and for founding atomic theory.
Appears in modules:
- Atomic Theory I Detecting electrons and the nucleus
- Atomic Theory II Ions, neutrons, isotopes and quantum theory
- Chemical Equations Using shorthand to show balanced reactions
- Chemical Reactions Types of reactions and the laws that govern them
- Early Ideas about Matter From Democritus to Dalton
- Earth's Atmosphere Composition, temperature, and pressure
- History of Earth's Atmosphere I The origin of the modern atmosphere
- Kinetic-Molecular Theory Molecule collisions, the mean free path, and modern KMT
- Modeling in Scientific Research Simplifying a system to make predictions
- Properties of Gases The gas laws and the ideal gas equation
- Thermodynamics I Caloric theory, latent heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
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