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What is Dalton's Law?
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Dalton proposed the theory that all matter is made up of individual particals called atoms, which cannot be divided.
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All elements are composed of atoms.
All atoms of the same element have the same mass, and atoms of different elements have different masses. Compounds contain atoms of more than one element. In a particular compound atoms of different elements always combine in the same way. |
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The word 'atom' comes from what greek word?
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atomos (indivisible)
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centi-
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c
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hundredth (ten to the negative second power)
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milli-
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m
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thousandth (ten to the negative third power)
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micro-
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(greek letter meu)
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millionth (ten to the negative sixth power)
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nano
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n
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billionth (ten to the negative ninth power)
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