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Graham's law states that the rate of ''effusion'' of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight. | Graham's law states that the rate of ''effusion'' of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight. | ||
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#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1850.0001 Thomas Graham "The Bakerian Lecture: On the Diffusion of Liquids", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London '''140''' pp. 1-46 (1850)] | |||
[[Category: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics]] | [[Category: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics]] |
Latest revision as of 15:57, 10 April 2008
Graham's law states that the rate of effusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight.