Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Dalton's law | Yes | No | No | No |
natural philosophy | Yes | No | No | No |
Dalton's law (noun) | natural philosophy (noun) |
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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 | the science of matter and energy and their interactions |
(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 |