Dalton's+Law+of+Partial+Pressure-+M.Killeen

John Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure is as simple as it gets. He realized that a gas mixtures Total Pressure was equal to the sum of the partial pressure of each gas within the mixture. The formula for this observation is represented as:

Ptotal= p1+p2+p3+p4...pN

This photo is a picture of the man who observed this law and brought it to peoples attention.

Gas Law Teaching Wiki- M. Killeen