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law of partial pressures
noun
Medical Definition of LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES
: a statement in physics and chemistry: the component of the total pressure contributed by each ingredient in a mixture of gases or vapors is equal to the pressure that it would exert if alone in the same enclosure—called also Dalton's law
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