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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. ...

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...

Hubble's law

(Encyclopedia)Hubble's law, in astronomy, statement that the distances between galaxies (see galaxy) or clusters of galaxies are continuously increasing and that therefore the universe is expanding. Hubble's law ...

Raoult's law

(Encyclopedia)Raoult's law räo͞olzˈ [key] [for F. M. Raoult, a French physicist and chemist] states that the addition of solute to a liquid lessens the tendency for the liquid to become a solid or a gas, i.e., r...

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