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Faraday's law

(Encyclopedia)Faraday's law, physical law stating that the number of moles of substance produced at an electrode during electrolysis is directly proportional to the number of moles of electrons transferred at that ...

Joule's law

(Encyclopedia)Joule's law: see thermoelectricity. ...

Salian Law

(Encyclopedia)Salian Law: see Germanic laws.

Law, the

(Encyclopedia)Law, the, in Judaism: see Torah.

Gresham's law

(Encyclopedia)Gresham's law: see under Gresham, Sir Thomas. ...

periodic law

(Encyclopedia)periodic law, statement of a periodic recurrence of chemical and physical properties of the elements when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. Such an arrangement in the for...

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