Peter Waage
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Peter Waage was a Norwegian chemist who, along with Cato Maximilian Guldberg, formulated the law of mass action. This law, proposed between 1864 and 1879, states that the rate of a chemical reaction is proportional to the product of the masses of the reacting substances. While historically significant for determining equilibrium equations, the rate expressions it provides are now understood to apply only to elementary reactions. Guldberg was also a professor of mathematics at the University of Christiania and formulated Guldberg's law concerning boiling points.123
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