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Law of multiple proportions   /lɔ əv mˈəltəpəl prəpˈɔrʃənz/   Listen
Law of multiple proportions

noun
1.
(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.  Synonym: Dalton's law.





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"Law of multiple proportions" Quotes from Famous Books



... the discontinuity of matter forces itself upon us for many other reasons. All modern chemistry is founded on this principle; and laws like the law of multiple proportions, introduce an evident discontinuity to which we find analogies in the law of electrolysis. The elements of bodies we are thus brought to regard might, as regards solids at all events, be considered as immobile; but this immobility could not explain the ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare


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