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HENRY'S LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Henry's law mean? 

HENRY'S LAW (noun)
  The noun HENRY'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increasesplay

  Familiarity information: HENRY'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HENRY'S LAW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Henry'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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