9.4Series and Their Notations
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Dalton's law is stated with explicit sigma notation, P_Total = ΣᵢPᵢ, the same summation shorthand introduced formally when sequences are summed — a student who has only seen '+ ... +' spelled out may stall on the Σ symbol itself rather than the chemistry.