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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.
Generic synonyms: Law, Law Of Nature
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Constant Proportion
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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