Gay-Lussac

[ gey-luh-sak; French gey-ly-sak ]

noun

1. Jo·seph Lou·is [joh, -z, uh, f , loo, -ee, -s, uh, f, zhaw-, zef, lwee], 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.

Gay-Lussac

/ ɡɛlysak; ˈɡeɪˈluːsæk /

noun

1. Gay-LussacJoseph Louis17781850MFrenchSCIENCE: physicistSCIENCE: chemist Joseph Louis (ʒozɛf lwi). 1778–1850, French physicist and chemist: discovered the law named after him (1808), investigated the effects of terrestrial magnetism, isolated boron and cyanogen, and discovered methods of manufacturing sulphuric and oxalic acids

Gay-Lussac

/ gā′lə-săk′ /

1. French chemist and physicist who in 1808 developed a law governing the ratio of volumes of gases participating in chemical reactions. In that same year, with Louis Jacques Thénard, he discovered the element boron.

Example Sentences

With the aid of Boyle's and Gay-Lussac's laws, this observed volume is then reduced to standard conditions.

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There is scarcely a branch of physical or chemical science to which Gay-Lussac did not contribute some important discovery.

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As a member of the freemason fraternity he was known as Gay Lussac.

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Gay-Lussac's method is based on the precipitation of silver from a nitric acid solution by a solution of sodium chloride.

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The above spirits mark usually 28 alcometric degrees of Gay Lussac.

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