 | International Correspondence Schools - Electric batteries - 1905 - 760 pages
...composition, 11.111 per cent., by weight, of hydrogen to 88.889 per cent., by weight, of oxygen. The same compound always contains the same elements combined in the same proportion by weight. This is known as the law of definite proportions. 20. Iiaw of Multiple Proportions. — In many cases... | |
 | Agriculture - 1906 - 698 pages
...composition, 11.111 per cent., by weight, of hydrogen to 88.889 per cent., by weight, of oxygen. The same compound always contains the same elements combined in the same proportion by weight. This is known as the law of definite proportions. 20. Liaw of Multiple Proportions. — In many cases... | |
 | William Henry Chapin - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1922 - 336 pages
...Combining Weights and Reciprocal Proportions. — In studying the law of constant composition we found that any given compound always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight. Thus, silver oxide always contains silver and oxygen combined in the proportions... | |
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... compound. When oxygen and hydrogen combine to form water they always combine in the proportion of one part, by weight, of hydrogen to eight parts, by weight, of oxygen; or, expressed in percentage composition, 11.111 per cent., by weight, of hydrogen... 