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LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of partial pressures mean? 

LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES (noun)
  The noun LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES has 1 sense:

1. (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 temperatureplay

  Familiarity information: LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES used as a noun is very rare.


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LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dalton's law; Dalton's law of partial pressures; law of partial pressures

Hypernyms ("law of partial pressures" 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)


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