Dalton

Examples

• On the 12th of February I ordered Thomas to take Dalton and hold it, if possible; and I directed him to move without delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• So that among the founders of our science, next to the name of the great French Philosopher, Lavoisier, will stand in future ages the name of John Dalton, of Manchester. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In 1837 Dalton wrote: Berzelius's symbols are horrifying: a young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself a cquainted with them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Dalton is at the junction of the railroad from Cleveland with the one from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Dalton tried in vain to reconcile this supposi tion with his belief in the atomic nature of matter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Dalton thus introduced into the study of chemical combination a very definite idea of quantitative relationship. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In short, says Dalton, I was obliged to abandon the hypothesis of the chemical constitution of the atmosphere altogether as irrecon cilable to the phenomena. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Enough has been said to establish Dalton's claim to be styled a great lawgive r of chemical science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Sherman had forced Johnston out of Dalton, Georgia, and was following him south. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Dalton was not only the author of the atomic theory, but the discoverer of the leading ideas in the Constitution of Mixed Gases. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As I have said already, Johnston was at Dalton, which was nearly one-fourth of the way between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Johnston, was at Dalton, Georgia, opposed to Sherman who was still at Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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