LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of multiple proportions mean? 

• LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS (noun)
  The noun LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dalton's law; law of multiple proportions

Hypernyms ("law of multiple proportions" 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)