Who is credited with first describing the law of partial pressures for a gas mixture?

a. John Dalton
b. Joseph Prestley
c. Jacque Charles
d. Thomas Young


ANS: A
John Dalton described his law of partial pressures for a gas mixture in 1801 and his atomic theory in 1808.

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