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noun

(1) English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)

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Any of several places in the north of England and in Scotland
John Dalton, English chemist.
transferred from the surname.

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Dalton

a former unit of atomic mass equivalent to 1/16 the mass of an oxygen atom; now replaced by the atomic mass unit (or dalton)