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