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DALTON'S LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture; the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature
Synonyms:
Dalton's law; Dalton's law of partial pressures; law of partial pressures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Dalton's law" is a kind of...):
law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation
Synonyms:
Dalton's law; law of multiple proportions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Dalton's law" is a kind of...):
law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
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