Dalton's atomic theory

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Democritus

In the 5th century BC, he was a greek philosopher that expressed the belief that all matter consists of very small indivisible particles which he named atomos (meaning uncuttable or indivisible)

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Atomos

Uncuttable or indivisible

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Plato and Aristotle

Contemporaries of Democritus that did not accepts his idea

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John Dalton

In 1808, an english scientist and school teacher that formulated precise definition of the indivisible building blocks of matter that we call atoms

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Experimental evidence from early scientific investigations

Provided support for the notion of ‘atomism’ and gradually gave rise to the modern definitions of elements

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