John dalton was the first person recorded as thinking that matter was ultimately composed of atoms. true or false

The statement is false. It was Democritus, a Greek philosopher, who first theorized that matter was ultimately composed of atoms. His ideas were not widely accepted in his time (460-370 B.C), but during the 19th century, John Dalton proposed this theory and gained broad acceptance.

each chemical family is represented as a group or column on the periodic table. based on chemical properties, there are 6 types of chemical families. group 1 represents alkali metals, group 2 represents alkaline earth metals, groups 3 to 12 represent transition metals, groups 13 to 16 represent non-metals and other metals, group 17 represents halogens and group 18 represents noble gases.