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partial pressure

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The pressure that one component of a mixture of gases would exert if it were alone in a container.

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  • noun physics (chemistry) The pressure one component of a mixture of gases would contribute to the total pressure.

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