Chemistry 11

Kern & Sarah

JOHN DALTON

IDEA OF THE ATOM

The 5 main points of Dalton’s atomic theory:• Elements = particles called atoms• Atoms in same element are the

same; Atoms in different elements are different

• Atoms cant be destroyed/created• Atoms combine in elements

compound • chemical reactions=combined,

separated or rearranged

JOHN DALTON

• He was born on September 6th 1766 and he died on July 27th 1844 at the age of 78

• chemist, meteorologist and physicist

• modern atomic theory• Quaker family in Eagles

field• older brother named

Jonathan• He was colour-blind

• He was a chemist and a physicist

• Famous for atomic theory of matter

• elements = atoms = indestructible

• 1 of the fathers of modern physical

EXPERIMENTS/AREA OF STUDY

• famous for research on relativity of atom hydrogen

• book called “A New System of Chemical Philosophy”. atomic weights

• Daltonism = paper on colourblindness• Discovered butylene (alternative name for butene

(C4 H8) and he determined the • determined the composition of ether

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/classicalcs/daltonnote.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Daltonhttp://matthew2488.tripod.com/id1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butene

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