Joseph Proust, based on experiments conducted at the end of the 18th Century claimed that elements combined in constant proportions. Dalton's atomic theory, (1903) built on this earlier work and put it into a theoretic framework.
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Dalton's law of constant proportion states that any sample of a chemical compound will have its constituent elements appearing in the same proportion by mass. Thus 8/9 of the mass of any sample of water will be oxygen and the remaining 1/9 will be hydrogen.
That is the law of constant composition.
The law of constant composition for compounds is a law in chemistry according to which any given compound always contains the same component elements in the same ratios, by mass. The ratios do not depend on where the compound comes from or the way in which it was produced.
It means that in any pure compound, the proportion of constituent elements (by mass) is a constant. This allows their chemical formulae to be determined.