The Sum of the Partial Pressures of a Gas Mixture

question 69

Multiple Choice

The sum of the partial pressures of a gas mixture equals the total gas pressure of the system.This statement represents which of the following laws?

• A) Dalton's law
• B) Avogadro's law
• C) The combined-gas law
• D) Boltzmann's Universal Gas Constant

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