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Dalton's law of partial pressure
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Dalton's law of partial pressure is a law governing the pressure of a system containing mutually inert gases. The law was stated by the English chemist John Dalton. It goes thus: "The total pressure of an isolated system (or mixture) of mutually inert gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases of the same volume and at the same temperature as the mixture."
