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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...

distributive law

(Encyclopedia)distributive law. In mathematics, given any two operations, symbolized by * and ∘, the first operation, *, is distributive over the second, ∘, if a*(b∘c)=(a*b)∘(a*c) for all possible choices o...

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