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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.


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