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Definition of Distribution law

1. Noun. (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution.

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Literary usage of Distribution law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1861)
"By tho distribution law—for he would call it by its right name, it was " distribution," though a mental reservation had been made by the use of tifo word ..."

2. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1919)
"APPENDIX I. MAXWELL'S distribution law AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIPARTITION OF ENERGY. BY JAMES RICE, MA THE aim of mechanics is the description of motion. ..."

3. An Introduction to the Principles of Physical Chemistry from the Standpoint by Edward Wight Washburn (1921)
"What is the concentration of carbon dioxide in water which is in equilibrium with air at 25° and 1 atm't (Use Table XV.) - -. 5. The distribution law for ..."

4. An Advanced Course of Instruction in Chemical Principles by Arthur Amos Noyes, Miles Standish Sherrill (1922)
"This distribution law, like Raoult's law and Henry's law, is a limiting law ... The distribution law between liquid phases can be derived from Henry's law ..."

5. Practical Pyrometry: The Theory, Calibration, and Use of Instruments for the by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Glenn Alfred Shook, Jacob Roland Collins (1920)
"Wien's distribution law. — When the temperature of a luminous body is ... Wien's distribution law may be expressed in the form: logic h = logio ci — 5 logic ..."

6. Text-book of Electochemistry by Svante Arrhenius (1902)
"... also the concentrations of the substance in the two liquids, must stand to each other in a constant ratio. distribution law. — If an aqueous solution of ..."

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