Definition of Law of reciprocal proportions

1. Noun. (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together.

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

Medical Definition of Law of reciprocal proportions

1. The relative weights in which two substances form a chemical union singly with a third are the same as, or simple multiples of, those in which they unite with each other; a corollary of the law of definite proportions. Synonym: law of multiple proportions. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Reciprocal Proportions

law of initial value
law of intestine
law of isochronism
law of large numbers
law of motion
law of multiple proportions
law of nations
law of nature
law of parsimony
law of partial pressures
law of polar excitation
law of priority
law of proximity
law of recapitulation
law of reciprocal proportions (current term)
law of referred pain
law of refraction
law of regression to mean
law of segregation
law of similarity
law of similars
law of sines
law of specific nerve energies
law of the excluded middle
law of the heart
law of the jungle
law of the land
law of the minimum
law of the tongue

Literary usage of Law of reciprocal proportions

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

1. A Text-book of Experimental Chemistry: (with Descriptive Notes) for Students by Edwin Lee (1908)
"A relationship which may be noted at once by a study of the foregoing experiments is stated as the Law of Reciprocal Proportions, or Law of Equivalent ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The law of reciprocal proportions, or, as it might well be named, the law of equivalence, cannot be adequately enunciated in a fe» words. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"(This holds for all non-ionized substances.) Cf. law of Blagden. Law of Reciprocal Proportions. (Law of equivalent proportions. ..."

4. Second Year College Chemistry by William Henry Chapin (1922)
"From the following analytical data work out the combining weights of the given elements and deduce the law of reciprocal proportions: Calcium Oxide Calcium, ..."

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