law of partial pressures

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   (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

   SynonymsDalton's lawDalton's law of partial pressures

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Questions about law of partial pressures

What does law of partial pressures mean?

law of partial pressures means "(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".

What is another word for law of partial pressures?

Close synonyms include Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is law of partial pressures a common word?

law of partial pressures is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.