Amongst the following statements, that which was not proposed by Dalton was:

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Strategy:
 Dalton's Atomic Theory focused on the nature of atoms and their mass relationships in chemical combinations. Laws regarding volume ratios of gases were proposed by other scientists around the same time.

Step 1: Analyze the statements
- (a) Conservation of mass and atom identity (Postulate 1 & 2 of Dalton).
- (b) Identical atoms for a given element (Postulate 3 of Dalton).
- (c) Combining volumes of gases: This is Gay-Lussac's Law of Combining Volumes. Gay-Lussac proposed that at cons

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