Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun law_of_multiple_proportions

1 sense of law of multiple proportions

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")