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Sir Fancis Bacon publish "The Proficience and Advancement of Learning," which contains a description of what would later be known as the scientific method.
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A description of the relationship specifically between pressure and volume created by Robert Boyle.
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Joseph Black isolated carbon dioxide, which he called "fixed air."
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Antoine Lavoisier developed his law of conservation of mass, also called Lavoisier's Law.
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"1.Elements are made of extremely small particles called atoms.
2.Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass, and other properties; atoms of different elements differ in size, mass, and other properties.
3.Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed.
4.Atoms of different elements combine in simple whole-number ratios to form chemical compounds.
5.In chemical reactions, atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged."
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In this year, he renamed a previously discovered type of radiation. They used to be called alpha or beta rays, but Rutherford changed it to gamma rays due to their much greater penetrating power.
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"Thomson investigated positive rays, which consist of ionized atoms, beginning in 1906. He was able to use a combination of electric and magnetic fields to separate different charged atoms of elements on the basis of their charge/mass ratios. He was the first to show that neon contained two atoms of slightly different masses, in a paper published in 1913."
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Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr discovered the structure an atom, and by Marie and Pierre Curie of radioactivity, scientists had to change their viewpoint on the nature of matter.
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Creation of "The Bohr Model," which is a model of the atom in which the electrons orbit around the atom nucleus.
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