Gay-Lussac

[gey-luh-sak, gey-ly-sak]

noun

1. Joseph Louis 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.

Gay-Lussac

/ ˈɡeɪˈluːsæk, ɡɛlysak /

noun

1. 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

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

The way was paved in the first instance by a more complete study of the laws of gases, to which Laplace, Dalton, Gay-Lussac, Dulong and many others contributed both on the experimental and theoretical side.

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The name Gaylussacia commemorates the famous French chemist Gay-Lussac.

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No doubt this superior quality is owing to the fact, that the famous chemist, Gay-Lussac, devoted much of his time to assisting in the manufacture carried on at these works.

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He thus enunciated the law of the expansion of gases, stated some months later by Gay-Lussac.

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It was first isolated in 1815 by J. Gay-Lussac, who obtained it by heating mercury or silver cyanide; this discovery is of considerable historical importance, since it recorded the isolation of a “compound radical.”

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