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.
John Dalton, the father of atomic theory, by Charles Turner. Credit: Wikipedia. Atomic theory â that is, the belief that all matter is composed of tiny, indivisible elements â has very deep roots. Initially, the theory appeared in thousands of years ago in Greek and Indian texts as a philosophical idea.he findings became the basis of of Daltonâs Atomic Laws or Model, which focuses on five basic theorems. The first states that elements, in their purest state, consist of particles called atoms. Second, the atoms of a specific element are all the same, down to the very last atom.