Answer: The correct statement is that,
'He reinterpreted and retested Joseph Proust's results'
Explanation:
John Dalton was an English chemist who contributed greatly to the field of Chemistry. He published his theory about atom in 1808.
Dalton was the first person to recognize a workable distinction between the fundamental particle of an element (atom) and that of a compound (molecule). The atomic theory generally summaries the laws of chemical composition which includes:
--> law of constant composition and
---> law of multiple proportions.
John Dalton was being creative in his work by reinterpretation and retesting of Joseph Proust's results. Joseph Proust was a French chemist that first discovered the law of constant composition in 1794. This means that many has started working on the atoms before John Dalton discovery.
From the previous works of Proust, he had studied tin oxides and found that their masses were either 88.1% tin and 11.9% oxygen or 78.7% tin and 21.3% oxygen (these were tin(II) oxide and tin dioxide respectively). Dalton retested and noted from these percentages that 100g of tin will combine either with 13.5g or 27g of oxygen; 13.5 and 27 form a ratio of
Dalton reinterpreted it by finding an atomic theory of matter that could elegantly explain this common pattern in chemistry – in the case of Proust’s tin oxides, one tin atom will combine with either one or two oxygen atoms. I hope this helps, thanks.
