Law of Multiple Proportions

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(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

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possessive: Law of Multiple Proportions's
pluralpossessive: Law of Multiple Proportionses'

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