Atomic-theory Synonyms

(chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles
Synonyms:
  1. bohr theory
  2. Dirac theory
  3. atomism
  4. Doctrine of definite proportions
  5. Lewis-Langmuir or octet theory
  6. Rutherford theory
  7. Schr�dinger theory
  8. atomist theory
  9. Thomson's hypothesis
  10. quantum-theory
  11. atomistic theory

Atomic-theory Sentence Examples

  • Otherwise Berthollet's position would have been a much stronger one, and the atomic theory might have had to wait a long while for acceptance.

  • Before he had propounded the atomic theory he had already attained a considerable scientific reputation.

  • Since the period, a century ago, when Dalton and his contemporaries constructed from this idea a scientific basis for chemistry, the progress of that subject has been wonderful beyond any conception that could previously have been entertained; and the atomic theory in some form appears to be an indispensable part of the framework of physical science.

  • Dalton communicated his atomic theory to Dr Thomson, who by consent included an outline of it in the third edition of his System of Chemistry (1807), and Dalton gave a further account of it in the first part of the first volume of his New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808).

  • In the following year he published at Vienna his famous work, Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium, containing his atomic theory (see MOLECULE).

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