Definition of Law of equivalent 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 Reciprocal Proportions
Generic synonyms: Law, Law Of Nature
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Equivalent Proportions

law of conservation of matter
law of constant numbers in ovulation
law of constant proportion
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 (current term)
law of excitation
law of excluded middle
law of gravitation
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

Literary usage of Law of equivalent proportions

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

1. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1877)
"(11) This explanation will simplify the consideration of the third law, which is usually known as the Law of Equivalent Proportions, It may be stated as ..."

2. Inorganic Chemistry by Edward Frankland, Francis Robert Japp (1885)
"This law is known as the Law of Multiple Proportions. LAW OF EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONS.—The foregoing numerical law was ..."

3. Practical Proofs of Chemical Laws: A Course of Experiments Upon the by Vaughan Cornish (1895)
"... CHAPTER IV THE law of equivalent proportions THE experiments described in this chapter upon the verification of the above law show that those weights of ..."

4. First Principles of Chemistry by Benjamin Silliman (1859)
"The law of equivalent proportions, according to which when a body (A) unites with other bodies, (B, C, D. &c.,) the proportions in which B, C, ..."

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