Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that when determining the atomic mass of each chemical elements, the English ...

TIL that when determining the atomic mass of each chemical elements, the English chemist William Prout deduced that the building block of the atom is primarily the atom of Hydrogen. Though Prout’s hypothesis was not entirely accurate, because atom's building block is the proton.

https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/william-prout/
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