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	Law of definite proportions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the fundamental observations of modern chemistry, the law of definite proportions states that, in Compounds, the elements combine in proportion with each other, by mass.
		While the law of definite proportions might seem trivially true to the modern chemist, inherent in the very definition of a chemical compound, this was not so at the end of the 18th century, when the concept of a chemical compound had not yet been fully developed.
		It may be noted that although very useful in the foundation of modern chemistry, the law of definite proportions is not universally true.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_of_definite_proportions (523 words)

	Chemistry - Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Law of conservation of mass- states that mass is neither destroyed nor created during ordinary or physical reactions.
		Law of definite proportions- the fact that a chemical compound contains the same elements in exactly the same proportions by mass regardless of the size of the same or source of the compound.
		Law of multiple proportions- if two or more different compounds are composed of the same two elements, then the ratio of the masses of the second element combined with a certain mass of the first element is always a ratio of small whole numbers.
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	Unit 2 - Atomic Structure
		Three laws support the existence of atoms: the law of definite proportions, the law of conservation of mass, and the law of multiple proportions.The best explanations for these laws is that substances are made of molecules, with each molecule consisting of atoms bound together.
		Law of Multiple Proportions: When the same elements combine to form two or more different compounds, the amounts of the elements differ in whole-number ratios.
		Law of Conservation of Mass: Matter cannot be created or destroyed in ordinary chemical and physical changes.
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	Chemistry - MSN Encarta
		For example, water always breaks down into 2.016 parts of hydrogen by weight to 16.000 parts of oxygen by weight, which is a ratio of about 1 to 8, regardless of whether the water came from the Mississippi River or the ice of Antarctica.
		In other words, a compound has a definite, invariable composition, always containing the same elements in the same proportions by weight; this is the law of definite proportions.
		This example illustrates the law of multiple proportions: When two elements combine to form more than one compound, the element whose mass varies combines with a fixed mass of the second element weights in a simple whole-number ratio such as 2:1, 3:1, or 3:2.
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	Atoms
		Furthermore, from the fact that the law of definite proportions was an observed fact, one could deduce that atoms were indeed indivisible objects.
		His first law of electrolysis stated: The mass of substance liberated at an electrode during electrolysis is proportional to the quantity of electricity driven through the solution.
		His second law of electrolysis stated: The weight of metal liberated by a given quantity of electricity is proportional to the equivalent weight of the metal.
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	Q14
		The Law of definite proportions states that no matter how you make a chemical compound, it's got the same ratio of elements.
		The law of multiple proportions refers to different chemical compounds that can be formed when two elements react with each other.
		The law of multiple proportions says that whenever oxygen and hydrogen (or any two elements react to form more than one compound), the ratios of the elements to each other will be some whole number multiple of the ratios of the elements in the other compounds.
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	definite - definition by dict.die.net
		Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval.
		Definite article (Gram.), the article the, which is used to designate a particular person or thing, or a particular class of persons or things; -- also called a definitive.
		Law of definite proportions (Chem.), the essential law of chemical combination that every definite compound always contains the same elements in the same proportions by weight; and, if two or more elements form more than one compound with each other, the relative proportions of each are fixed.
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	Atomic Times
		This law is one of the most important chemical laws to date.
		He discovered grape sugar and established the law of definite proportions, also known as Proust's law, which states that in any compound the elements are present in a fixed proportion by weight.
		Now the great mind that developed the law of definite proportions and that helped develop the atomic theory is dead.
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	Law of Definite Proportions
		The law of definite proportions, first defined by Joseph Louis Proust, states that in a pure compound, the elements combine in definite proportions to one another by mass.
		Hydrocarbons, for instance, go through many hundreds of permutations, each with somewhat different properties, and may have from one to hundreds of carbon atoms combined with hydrogen atoms in differing proportions.
		And hydrogen peroxide is made up of oxygen and hydrogen (as is water), but with a different proportion of hydrogen to oxygen than water.
	www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/Law_of_Definite_Proportions (224 words)

	CP Chem Unit 2
		Explain the difference between the law of definite proportions and the law of multiple proportions.
		The law of definite proportions states that a given compound always has the same elements in the same proportions, the law of multiple proportions applies to different compounds made from the same 2 elements and states that each different compound made from the same 2 elements will have different proportions of those 2 elements
		The Law of Octaves says the the chemical and physical properties repeated with the eighth element The periodic Law states that the physical and chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic number
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	Chemical Measurements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chemical compounds are formed by the combining of a definite number of atoms of each type of atom to make one molecule of the formed compound.
		Confirmation of these postulates explained both the conservation of mass in chemical reactions and the law of definite proportions.
		Dalton's efforts to confirm his postulates led to the law of multiple proportions: whenever two elements combine to form more than one compound, there is a ratio of small whole numbers between the various masses of one element that combine with a constant mass of the other element in the compounds.
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	Atoms of Definite Weight: Dalton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The laws of definite and multiple proportions are also associated with Dalton, for they can be explained by his atomic hypothesis.
		The law of multiple proportions came to be regarded as an empirical law quite independent of its relation to the atomic hypothesis or perhaps as an empirical law that inspired the atomic hypothesis; however, Roscoe and Harden have shown that in Dalton's mind it was a testable prediction which followed from the atomic hypothesis.
		The opinions I more particularly allude to, are those of Berthollet on the Laws of chemical affinity; such as that chemical affinity is proportional to the mass[7], and that in all chemical unions, there exist insensible gradations in the proportions of the constituent principles.
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	The Atomic Molecular Theory
		The importance of the Law of Conservation of Mass is that it reveals that we can usefully measure the masses of the elements which are contained in a fixed mass of a compound.
		This atomic explanation looks like the definitive answer to the question of what it means to combine two elements to make a compound, and it should even permit prediction of what quantity of lead sulfide will be produced by a given amount of lead.
		The Law of Multiple Proportions states that when two elements form two or more compounds, the ratios of the masses of the elements between the two compounds are in a simple whole number ratio.
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	Stoichiometry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The law of definite proportions states that the ratio of the mass of hydrogen to the mass of oxygen in any size sample will be a constant.
		The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy states that the total sum of matter and energy in the universe is fixed.
		The Law of Conservation of Mass dictates that anything on one side of a chemical equation (for example, any atoms present in the reactants in a reaction) must also be on the other side (the products).
	www.nitrogenorder.org /lessons/stoich.shtml (5619 words)

	Atomic and Nuclear Chemistry
		Law of Definite Proportions: The elements composing a compound are always found in the same ratio by mass.
		Law of Multiple Proportions: The masses of one element that combine with a fixed amount of another element to form more than one compound are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
		Planck suggested that _____________________________________, which suggested that the energy of each ________________ was proportional to the frequency of the light wave.
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	Slides1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Measurements led to one of the important early laws of chemistry, the Law of Conservation of Mass.
		Experimental measurements led to the second important early observation, the Law of Definite Proportions.
		9, expresses this Law as "In a given chemical compound, the proportions by mass of the elements that compose it are fixed, independent of the origin of the compound or its mode of preparation.i"
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	Problem Tutorials
		In terms of writing chemical equations, the law of conservation of matter states that the same number of each type of element on the left side of the arrow (the reactants) must be present on the right side of the arrow.
		This demonstrates the law of definite proportions (or the law of constant composition).
		By the Lowry- Brønsted definition, an amino group definitely acts as a base, and the effect of removing hydrogen ions from water molecules is the same as adding hydroxide ions to the solution.
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	CHEM1010-F04-Sum-C2
		The proportion is universal, no matter where and when a chemical is found or produced or in which way it is made, naturally or artificially, by this method or another.
		Following the fifth point: “A chemical reaction is simply a rearrangement of atoms, changing the combination of the different kinds of atoms,” then, since any rearrangement of the combination of the atoms neither increases nor decreases the amount of atoms, the total mass of all the atoms remains the same before and after the reaction.
		Operational definitions for matter classification were historically created and used by experimental chemists and may encounter confusion because the definitions depends on how you conduct the chemical operations.
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	Iron Oxides
		That there are not an infinite number of them (and in fact, there almost is, as well shall see!) is an example of the law of definite proportion, an idea so central to chemistry it is almost taken for granted today.
		This is required by the law of mass conservation and the immutability of elements (in the absence of nuclear reactions, which we will not consider in Chem 5).
		That the ratio (iron atoms)/(oxygen atoms) is 4/6, or 2/3, and nothing else is an example of the law of definite proportions.
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		The modern periodic law of the elements states that the properties of the element
		The Law of Constant Composition and the Law of Definite Proportions are
		Dalton explained the law of conservation of mass by stating that atoms are
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	Tutorial 2
		Be able to state the Law of Conservation of Mass and explain what it means in simple terms.
		Be able to state the Law of Definite Proportions and explain what it means in simple terms.
		Work through one of the Law of Conservation of Mass problems given in the tutorial and solve it.
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	Chemistry : Chapter 4 : Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This observation is called the law of definite proportions.
		It was also observed that when elements combine to form compounds, the ratio may be different, depending on the type of compound.
		The law of conservation of mass says that atoms can neither be created nor be destroyed in a chemical reaction.
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	Law of Definite Proportions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This law is readily explained by Dalton's atomic theory.
		This law is sometimes called the Law of Constant Composition.
		Proust actually did this; he generally gives the weights of oxygen combining with 100 of metal, but his analyses are too inaccurate to disclose any simple ratios.
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	Ch. 4 Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		) Atoms unite in definite ratios to form compounds.
		Law of Multiple Proportions- the ratio of masses of one element that combine with a constant mass of another element can be expressed in small whole numbers.
		- Pointed out that the absorption of light by elements at definite wavelengths corresponds to definate changes in the energy of the electrons.
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	Forming Chemical Compounds
		scientific law is a condensed statement of facts which has been discovered by experiment.
		There are three basic laws that apply to chemical reactions.
		of Mass, the Law of Definite Proportions, and the Law of Multiple Proportions.
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