Which statement best describes John Dalton’s use of creativity in his work?

Dalton used creativity by building on earlier work rather than simply accepting it. He reinterpreted and retested Joseph Proust’s findings about the proportions in which elements combine, which helped him develop the law of multiple proportions and his atomic theory. The other choices do not best describe this creative process: Dalton supported the idea of atoms and presented his theory as a set of postulates, not as recorded experimental results.

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