Sumit Majumdar
Last Activity: 10 Years ago
Dear student,
At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium with that liquid." An equivalent way of stating the law is that the solubility of a gas in a liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas above the liquid.
To explain this law, Henry derived the equation:
Regards
Sumit