Iron, an element with the chemical symbol Fe, is an important element. It is used to make steel and is part of the substance that transports oxygen throughout the human body. Which statement about Fe is supported by the modern atomic theory but not John Dalton's theory? A. The element iron is composed of small particles called atoms. B. The electrons of iron have probable locations in a region of space around the nucleus. C. Iron atoms combine with other atoms in whole number ratios to form compounds. D. Chemical reactions that involve iron do not create new atoms of iron.

B or A

Explanation:

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).