DALTON'S LAW

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

• DALTON'S LAW (noun)
  The noun DALTON'S LAW has 2 senses:

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

2. (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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DALTON'S LAW (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 ("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)

Sense 2

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 ("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)