A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. An independent clause (unlike adependent clause) can stand alone as asentence. Below are examples of complex sentences. In each example, the independent clause is shaded. The dependent clause is unshaded. 1  Stay in the bath until the phone rings.  The car swerved to miss Mrs Jackson, who had slipped off the pavement.
John Dalton was the first to recognize that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is the sum of the contributions of the individual components of the mixture. By convention, the part of the total pressure of a mixture that results from one component is called the partial pressure of that component.
As a result. - for over two thousand years - the atomic theory lay dormant. 1803 - atomic theory. John Dalton, English chemist, revived the term of the atom when he suggested that each element was made up of unique atoms and the atoms of an element are all the same. He formulated his theory that chemical reactions result from the union and separation of these atoms and that atoms have characteristic properties.