Law of Reciprocal Proportions

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(chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together

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synonym: law of equivalent proportions
possessive: Law of Reciprocal Proportions's
pluralpossessive: Law of Reciprocal Proportionses'

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