partial pressure
Noun
Meaning
partial pressure (countable and uncountable, plural partial pressures)
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(physics, chemistry) The pressure that one component of a mixture of gases would contribute to the total pressure.
Examples
At each temperature there is a partial pressure of carbon dioxide that is in equilibrium with calcium carbonate.
By Raoult's law, some of the target compound will vaporize (in accordance with its partial pressure).
By the 18th century, it was known that in pure oxygen, phosphorus does not glow at all; citation there is only a range of partial pressure at which it does.
Dangers Oxygen toxicity main Diving with and handling nitrox raise a number of potentially fatal dangers due to the high partial pressure of oxygen (ppO 2 ).
Equilibrium constants of reactions involving gas mixtures It is possible to work out the equilibrium constant for a chemical reaction involving a mixture of gases given the partial pressure of each gas and the overall reaction formula.
Even if the total pressure of a system is well above triple point of water, provided the partial pressure of the water vapor is 611.657 pascals then the system can still be brought to the triple point of water.