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work_fv7b4kya5jcpnccvk4su6j5epe	Paul Needham	Has Daltonian Atomism Provided Chemistry with Any Explanations?	2004	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4414	248	56	Philosophers frequently cite Dalton's chemical atomism, and its nineteenth century speculative theories and put atoms to work in actually explaining chemical relate them to the explanation of chemical combination provided by thermodynamics towards the end of the nineteenth century. The idea that compounds comprise fixed proportions of elements was was therefore required of an explanation of the law of constant proportions was an explanation of chemical combination accounting for the Nevertheless, Dalton seems to have thought the atomic hypothesis furthered our understanding of constant proportions. that when the same elements combine to form several different compounds, they do so in proportions which are simple, integral multiples of claim that atomism explains multiple proportions, let us pursue Dalton's Dalton's conception of atoms distinguished by elemental kind with like But the putative explanation of constant proportions characteristic of compounds provided by his atomic hypothesis was vitiated by (1966), "The Origin of Dalton's Chemical Atomic Theory: Daltonian	./cache/work_fv7b4kya5jcpnccvk4su6j5epe.pdf	./txt/work_fv7b4kya5jcpnccvk4su6j5epe.txt