Von Babo's law
Encyclopedia
von Babo's law is a scientific law
formulated by German chemist
Lambert Heinrich von Babo
. It describes properties of dilute solutions and low gas pressures.
Babo found that the weight of a gas
dissolved by a liquid
is proportional to the pressure
of the gas upon the liquid.
Scientific law
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formulated by German chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
Lambert Heinrich von Babo
Lambert Heinrich von Babo
Lambert Heinrich von Babo was a German chemist.-Life:Babo was the son of the agronomist Lambert Joseph von Babo and his first wife Karoline Ehrmann. The oenologist August Wilhelm von Babo was his half-brother...
. It describes properties of dilute solutions and low gas pressures.
Babo found that the weight of a gas
Gas
Gas is one of the three classical states of matter . Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid. As heat is added to this substance it melts into a liquid at its melting point , boils into a gas at its boiling point, and if heated high enough would enter a plasma state in which the electrons...
dissolved by a liquid
Liquid
Liquid is one of the three classical states of matter . Like a gas, a liquid is able to flow and take the shape of a container. Some liquids resist compression, while others can be compressed. Unlike a gas, a liquid does not disperse to fill every space of a container, and maintains a fairly...
is proportional to the pressure
Pressure
Pressure is the force per unit area applied in a direction perpendicular to the surface of an object. Gauge pressure is the pressure relative to the local atmospheric or ambient pressure.- Definition :...
of the gas upon the liquid.