Search Result for "law_of_multiple_proportions":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation;
[syn: law of multiple proportions, Dalton's law]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

law of multiple proportions
    n 1: (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine
         to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them
         that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit
         a simple multiple relation [syn: law of multiple
         proportions, Dalton's law]