See also: incorporation. INFUSION, med. jur. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation.
A proportion is an equation with a ratio on each side. It is a statement that two ratios are equal. 3/4 = 6/8 is an example of a proportion. When one of the four numbers in a proportion is unknown, cross products may be used to find the unknown number.
Law of Constant Composition (Proust) -ratio of. elements in a compound is always the same if the. compound is pure. Ex. Two samples of pure carbon dioxide gas were broken. down into their constituent elements -carbon and. oxygen -and the masses of each element were. measured.