Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dalton's_law

2 senses of dalton's law

Sense 1
law of multiple proportions, Dalton's law -- ((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)
       => law, law of nature -- (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics")

Sense 2
Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures -- ((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)
       => law, law of nature -- (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics")