Definition of Law of constant proportion

1. Noun. (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight.

Exact synonyms: Law Of Definite Proportions
Generic synonyms: Law, Law Of Nature
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Constant Proportion

law merchant
law of Archimedes
law of Hobson-Jobson
law of action and reaction
law of areas
law of average localization
law of averages
law of biogenesis
law of chemical equilibrium
law of closure
law of common fate
law of conservation of energy
law of conservation of matter
law of constant numbers in ovulation
law of constant proportion (current term)
law of contiguity
law of continuation
law of contrary innervation
law of cosines
law of definite proportions
law of denervation
law of diminishing marginal utility
law of diminishing returns
law of double negation
law of effect
law of equal areas
law of equivalent proportions
law of excitation
law of excluded middle

Literary usage of Law of constant proportion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"The Law of Constant Proportion. — The second important generalization which was reached through the quantitative study of chemical phenomena, ..."

2. The Elements of Physical Chemistry by Harry Clary Jones (1915)
"The Law of Constant Proportion. — The second important generalization which was reached through the quantitative study of chemical phenomena, ..."

3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... his merit will remain untouched ; for that properly consists in the discovery and promulgation of the law of constant proportion in chemical unions, ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The Jint law of combination by weight com]ire- bended under the AT is THE LAW OF CONSTANT PROPORTION, which teaches that the elements ..."

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