partial pressure 1

noundomain: natural phenomenon
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the pressure that a gas, in a mixture of gases, would exert if it alone occupied the whole volume occupied by the mixture.

  • 1.Gases dissolve, diffuse, and react according to their partial pressures, and not according to their concentrations in gas mixtures or liquids.

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