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In this video, we are going to talk about dalton's atomic theory, the postulates of which are listed here for reference.
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And specifically, we want to examine how our modern understanding of chemistry has changed the postulates of dalton's atomic theory from the time when he wrote them many, many, many hundreds of years ago.
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So in dalton's time, he believed that matter was made up of atoms, which we know is true.
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But specifically he thought that atoms were indivisible particles.
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And we now know that that part is not true because we know of the presence of subatomic particles like protons, neutrons, and electrons.
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So that negates this particular part of dalton's statement.
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So yes, matter is still made up of atoms, but we know that atoms are divisible into smaller subatomatom.
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Okay, for part b.
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Dalton said that each atom of a particular element has the same mass, but the mass of one element.
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Of an atom of one element is different from the mass of an atom of any other element.
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That's not necessarily the factor.
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The mass is not necessarily the distinguishing factor.
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We know now that we distinguish elements by a unique property, which is the number of protons...