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Noun: law of multiple proportions
  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
    - Dalton's law

Type of: law, law of nature

Encyclopedia: Law of multiple proportions

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