Graham's law has come to denote an important class of finely divided materials. Around the time Graham did his work, the concept of molecular weight was being established largely through the measurements of gases. Daniel Bernoulli suggested in 1738 in his book Hydrodynamica that heat increases in proportion to the velocity, and thus kinetic energy, of gas particles. Italian physicist Amedeo Avogadro also suggested in 1811 that equal volumes of different gases contain equal numbers of molecules. Thus, the relative molecular weights of two gases are equal to the ratio of weights of equal volumes of the gases. Avogadro's insight together with
Amagat's law Amagat's law Amagat's law or the Law of Partial Volumes describes the behaviour and properties of mixtures of ideal (as well as some cases of non-ideal) gases. Of use in chemistry and thermodynamics. Amagat's law states that the extensive volume "V = N·v" of a gas mixture is equal to the sum of volumes "V" of the "K" component gases, if the temperature "T" and the pressure "p" remain the same: This is the experimental expression of volume as an extensive quantity. It is named after Emile Amagat. According to Amagat's law of partial volume, the total volume of a