PARTIALPRESSURE

Partial pressure

In a mixture of gases, each gas has a partial pressure which is the hypothetical pressure of that gas if it alone occupied the volume of the mixture at the same temperature. The total pressure of an ideal gas mixture is the sum of the partial pressures of each individual gas in the mixture.

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partial pressure

Noun

  1. The pressure one component of a mixture of gases would contribute to the total pressure.


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