His first accomplishment was to confirm the law of definite proportions formulated by Proust by showing that it held in over 2,000 cases.
His first accomplishment was to confirm the law of definite proportions formulated by Proust by showing that it held in over 2,000 cases. He prepared the first accurate table of atomic weights, a task which prompted him to propose that the initial letter of an element's Latin name should be used as its symbol. FTP, name this chemist, who coined such terms as isomer, allotrope, and catalysis, and who discovered the elements silicon, thorium, and selenium.
His first accomplishment was to confirm the law of definite proportions formulated by Proust by showing that it held in over 2,000 cases.
Jons Jakob {Berzelius}