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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HENRY'S LAW

Named after William Henry (1774–1836), English chemist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HENRY'S LAW

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HENRY'S LAW

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WHAT DOES HENRY'S LAW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Henry's law

Henry's law

In physics, Henry's law is one of the gas laws formulated by William Henry in 1803. It states: "At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium with that liquid." An equivalent way of stating the law is that the solubility of a gas in a liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas above the liquid. An everyday example of Henry's law is given by carbonated soft drinks. Before the bottle or can of carbonated drink is opened, the gas above the drink is almost pure carbon dioxide at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure. The drink itself contains dissolved carbon dioxide. When the bottle or can is opened, some of this gas escapes, giving the characteristic hiss. Because the partial pressure of carbon dioxide above the liquid is now lower, some of the dissolved carbon dioxide comes out of solution as bubbles. If a glass of the drink is left in the open, the concentration of carbon dioxide in solution will come into equilibrium with the carbon dioxide in the air, and the drink will go "flat".

Definition of Henry's law in the English dictionary

The definition of Henry's law in the dictionary is the principle that the amount of a gas dissolved at equilibrium in a given quantity of a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas in contact with the liquid.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE HENRY'S LAW

Avogadro´s law
Boyle´s law
Bragg´s law
Buys Ballot´s law
Coulomb´s law
court of law
Curie-Weiss law
Dalton´s law
Gay-Lussac´s law
Gresham´s law
Hooke´s law
Hubble´s law
ideal gas law
Lenz´s law
Murphy´s law
Ohm´s law
Parkinson´s law
pass law
Scots law
Snell´s law
Sod´s law

Synonyms and antonyms of Henry's law in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translator English - Chinese

亨利定律
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Translator English - Spanish

La ley de Henry
570 millions of speakers

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Henry´s law
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Translator English - Hindi

हेनरी कानून
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Translator English - Arabic

قانون هنري
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Translator English - Russian

Закон Генри
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Translator English - Portuguese

A lei de Henry
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Translator English - Bengali

হেনরি এর আইন
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Translator English - French

La loi de Henry
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Translator English - Malay

Undang-undang Henry
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Translator English - German

Henry-Gesetz
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Translator English - Japanese

ヘンリーの法則
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Translator English - Korean

헨리 의 법칙
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Translator English - Javanese

Hukum Henry
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Pháp luật của Henry
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Translator English - Tamil

ஹென்றியின் சட்டம்
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Translator English - Marathi

हेन्रीचा कायदा
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Translator English - Turkish

Henry kanunları
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Translator English - Italian

Legge di Henry
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Translator English - Polish

Prawo Henry´ego
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Translator English - Ukrainian

Закон Генрі
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Translator English - Romanian

Legii lui Henry
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Translator English - Greek

Του νόμου του Henry
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Henry se wet
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Translator English - Swedish

Henrys lag
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Translator English - Norwegian

Henrys lov
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HENRY'S LAW»

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Henry's Law Constant Program
Henry's Law Constant Program is used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and it will be valuable for environmental chemists, engineers, or anyone who wants to calculate the Henry's Law Constant for partitioning a chemical ...
Philip H. Howard, William M. Meylan, 1992
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Environmental Forensics
TABLE 1.7 Henry's Law Constant for Selected Chlorinated Solvents Henry's Law Constant Compound (atm-m2/mol) Trichloroethylenc (TCE) 0.00937 Telrachloroethylene (PCE) 0.0l74 Carbon tetrachloride (PCM) 0.0298 Chloroform (TCM) ...
Robert D. Morrison, 1999
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Chemical Principles
What is Henry's law? Why does Henry's law not work for HCl(g)? What do the terms hydrophobic and hydrophilic mean? 34. O2(g) obeys Henry's law in water but not in blood (an aqueous solution). Why? 35. The solubility of nitrogen in water ...
Steven Zumdahl, 2007
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Principles of Chemistry: The Molecular Science
Table 14.3 The relationship between gas pressure and solubility is known as Henry's law: Sg kHPg where S g is the solubility of the gas in the liquid, and Pg is the pressure of the gas above the solution (or the partial pressure of the gas if the  ...
John Moore, Conrad Stanitski, Peter Jurs, 2009
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Chemistry of Water Treatment, Second Edition
According to Henry's law, the higher the partial pressure, the greater the solubility of the gas in water. At a constant partial pressure, the solubility decreases with increase in temperature. Also, gas solubility is reduced by an increase in ...
Samuel D. Faust, Osman M. Aly, 1998
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Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity, Enhanced Edition
ettyIm a g e s Sign in at www.cengage.com/login and go to Chapter 14 Contents to see Screen 14.5 for an exercise and tutorial on Henry's law. EXAMPLE 14.3 Using Henry's Law Problem What is the concentration of O2 in a fresh water ...
John Kotz, Paul Treichel, John Townsend, 2009
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Physical Chemistry
EXAMPLE 6.9 At 25◦C, water at equilibrium with air at 1.000 atm contains about 8.3 ppm (parts per million) of dissolved oxygen by mass. Compute the Henry's law constant. Solution The mole fraction of oxygen in air saturated with water vapor ...
Robert G. Mortimer, 2008
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Cyanide in Water and Soil: Chemistry, Risk, and Management
The equilibrium air-water partitioning of HCN can be described by Henry's Law: / >HCN=^H.HCN[HCN] (5.7) where PHCN is the partial pressure of HCN gas, atm, AH.HCN the Henry's Law constant, atm L mol ' , and [HCN] the equilibrium ...
David A. Dzombak, Rajat S. Ghosh, George M. Wong-Chong, 2005
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Water Treatment Unit Processes: Physical and Chemical
The exercise gives another example in applying Henry's law. EXAMPLE 8.5 AIR CONCENTRATION USING THE "HENRY'S CONSTANT FOR AIR" AT 20°c Let the context of the problem be a saturator, air as the gas, with 700 kPa total ...
David W. Hendricks, 2006
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Applications of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry: A Practical ...
Ca 1⁄4 KHCw (5:7) KH is the air–water partition coefficient, also known as Henry's law constant. Ca and Cw are the pollutant concentrations in air and water, respectively. Cp 1⁄4 KpCw (5:8) Kp is the free product–water partition coefficient.
Eugene R. Weiner, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HENRY'S LAW»

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The Importance of High Ozone Concentration and Gas Pressure for …
It all comes down to the physical law devised by William Henry in back in 1803, also called Henry's law. This is defined as “at a constant ... «AZoCleantech, Jun 15»
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Charges: Ogden man fatally smothered dog with rubber bands
Cottonwood Heights, UT. I hope "Henry's law" can be used to charge, convict and punish this person. 2:20 p.m. May 23, 2015; Top comment. «Deseret News, May 15»
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Research links animal cruelty with domestic violence, other crimes …
Changes in state laws, like Henry's law in Utah, have made many animal abuse crimes a felony. That's driving a bigger change that Ascione ... «fox13now.com, May 15»
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Tool to Predict TDG for the Columbia River Basin
TDG at equilibrium is calculated following the Henry's law considering the effect of the temperature on the Henry coefficient. Total gas ... «HydroWorld, Apr 15»
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A Different Approach: Changing climates
If you would like to look into this matter in more detail Google Henry's Law. AGW Hypothesis (ii) effectively all anthropogenic CO 2 emissions ... «Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, Mar 15»
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Contamination control for wind turbine gearboxes
Dehumidifying the headspace helps keep the oil free from water due to effects of Henry's law which governs the relative humidity of the air-oil ... «Windpower Engineering, Mar 15»
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Team suits up lab for space
The topics ranged from how to culture yogurt in space to a test of Henry's law, a chemistry principle applying to the solubility of gases. The local ... «Blue Mountain Eagle, Jan 15»
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Sentencing for Sonn Berrett pushed off; Elsa supporters rally for …
Before 2008, Henry's Law, named to honor the dog who's owner's husband cooked him in an oven, was not in effect, and abuse of domestic ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
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New video from Chemical Society breaks down the bubbly science …
But the video tell us that champagne obeys another, more fundamental law, namely Henry's Law. This law states that the pressure of a gas ... «Science Recorder, Jan 15»
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What Gives Champagne Its Bubbles? The Science of Bubbly This …
Champagne mostly relies on Henry's Law, which states that the pressure of a gas above a solution is proportional to the concentration of the ... «Science World Report, Dec 14»

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