DALTON'S LAW

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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