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Which scientist’s law about the ratios of masses of elements in a compound did John Dalton’s work on the atomic structure help to explain?
Democritus
J. J. Thomson
Ernest Rutherford
Joseph Proust
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Dalton’s atomic theory explained Proust’s law of definite proportions (law of constant composition): compounds are made of atoms in fixed ratios, so their mass ratios are constant.
Dalton’s atomic theory explained Proust’s law of definite proportions (law of constant composition): compounds are made of atoms in fixed ratios, so their mass ratios are constant.
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