law of partial pressures

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law of partial pressures - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  law of partial pressures
      n 1: (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
           [syn: Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures,
           law of partial pressures]