kissedbymoonlight Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 can anyone explain what dalton's law of partial pressure is? my textbook is doing a pretty crappy job of it and i have a test tomorrow.... in simple terms please. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahuta ♥ Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 Suppose you have a gas X is made up of a mixture of gas: Oxygen, Nitrogen and CO2. I want to find the pressure X has.In order to do that, I just have to find the partial pressures of Oxygen, Nitrogen and CO2, then add them up. That's Dalton's law.Remember that he came up with this law for IDEAL gases, not real ones. There are many factors in real gases that he didn't consider, so this rarely applies to real gases. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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