Which of the following statements is one of the foundational postulates of John Dalton's atomic model?

A) Negatively charged electrons are embedded uniformly throughout a spherical cloud of positive charge.

B) An atom consists of a tiny, dense, positively charged nucleus surrounded mostly by empty space.

C) Compounds are formed when atoms of different elements combine in fixed, simple whole-number ratios.

D) Electrons move around the central nucleus in specific circular orbits with quantized energy levels.

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