Definition of Law of mass action

1. Noun. (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances.

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

Medical Definition of Law of mass action

1. This law states that the rate of a given chemical reaction is proportional to concentration of the reactants. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Mass Action

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
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
law of partial pressures
law of polar excitation
law of priority
law of proximity
law of recapitulation
law of reciprocal proportions
law of referred pain
law of refraction
law of regression to mean

Literary usage of Law of mass action

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 mass action The Work of Guldberg and Waage. — Guldberg, who was later professor of applied mathematics at the University of Christiania, ..."

2. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"The History of the Law of Mass-Action.—The first theory of the action of chemical forces is that which was developed by the Swedish chemist, Bergman, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"enzyme, deviates considerably from what we should expect on the basis of the law of mass action. In the inversion of sucrose by invertase, for example, ..."

4. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1920)
"If they do not obey this law the law of mass action cannot be obeyed. ... "Is the law of mass action in error or does the ratio of the equivalent ..."

5. The Elements of Physical Chemistry by Harry Clary Jones (1915)
"THE law of mass action The Work of Guldberg and Waage. — Guldberg, who was later professor of applied mathematics at the University of Christiania, ..."

6. Principles of Inorganic Chemistry by Harry Clary Jones (1906)
"The importance of the action of mass will be more clearly seen as the subject develops. We shall now take up the law of mass action. ..."

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