LAW OF EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONS

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

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

1. (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW OF EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONS (noun)

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Meaning:

(chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

law of equivalent proportions; law of reciprocal proportions

Hypernyms ("law of equivalent 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)