law of partial pressures

Noun law of partial pressures has 1 sense

• law of partial pressures(n = noun.cognition) dalton's law, dalton's law of partial pressures - (chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture; the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature;
is a kind of law, law of nature