The phrase "atomic hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific discussions, particularly in the context of chemistry or physics, to refer to the idea that matter is composed of discrete units called atoms.
Example: "The atomic hypothesis laid the foundation for modern chemistry, explaining the behavior of elements and compounds at the atomic level."
Alternatives: "atomic theory" or "atomic model".
According to this concept, also known as the atomic hypothesis, subdivision of the basic unit (atom) could give rise only to particles with profoundly different properties.
John Dalton's original atomic hypothesis assumed that all elements were monatomic and that the atoms in compounds would normally have the simplest atomic ratios with respect to one another.
Subsequently numerous independent experimental verifications of the atomic hypothesis were carried out, and today it is universally accepted.
Ostwald even attempted to derive the basic chemical laws of constant and multiple proportions without the help of the atomic hypothesis.
The atomic hypothesis is usually credited to the Greek philosopher Democritus, who considered all matter to be composed of atoms of the four elements earth, air, fire, and water.
Two types of experimental evidence gave support to the atomic hypothesis: first, the detailed behaviour of gaseous substances and, second, the quantitative weight relationships observed with a variety of chemical reactions.
For an account of why Locke may have left England that does not involve the Rye House plot see Axtell 1968 p. 3. 4. Some commentators distinguish between the corpuscular and the atomic hypotheses on the grounds that corpuscles may be only relatively simple while atoms are supposed to be genuinely indivisible.
This was the decisive argument for the existence of microentities which led most of those still skeptical of the atomic hypotheses to change their views (Einstein, 1905; Perrin, 1913; Nye, 1972; Maiocchi, 1990).
His early fiction and his later Cruiskeen Lawn column make fun of sci-fi tropes as often as anything else, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Third Policeman, is full of bizarre concepts derived from scientific principles taken to absurd extremes – see "the atomic theory" and the hypothesis that excessive use of a bicycle will turn a cyclist into their vehicle.
Even with respect to the phenomena of light, the corpuscular and hence atomic theory of Newton, which held that light is made of tiny particles, was adopted almost universally, in spite of Huygens's brilliant development of the wave hypothesis.
Our analysis indicates that its protein topology apparently evolved to provide a high affinity interaction site for FH/FHL-1 and leads to an atomic-level hypothesis for the functioning of BbCRASP-1.
