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Before the 19th century, who discovered that each chemical element is made from a unique type of atom and those atoms become different according to their atomic mass.
- John Dalton
- Robert Boyle
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Antoine Lavoisier
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The correct answer is John Dalton
- According to Dalton's atomic theory each chemical element is made from a unique type of atom and those atoms become different according to their atomic mass.
- Chemical substances combined with each other in consistent units of weight.
- Based on this observation, he proposed that each chemical element is composed of a single, unique type of particle.
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