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The law of fixed composition

References

  1. John Dalton and the Atomic Theory: The Biography of a Natural Philosopher, Elizabeth C. Patterson, Doubleday, New York, 1970, chapter VI. The quote was taken from notes for a lecture Dalton delivered in 1810 before the Royal Institution in London.
  2. A Short History of Chemistry, J. R. Partington, Macmillan, London (1937).

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Page 4: Atoms in reactions Dance of the atoms
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