Gay-Lussac

American  

[gey-luh-sak, gey-ly-sak] / ˌgeɪ ləˈsæk, geɪ lüˈsæk /

noun

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

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Gay-Lussac British  

/ 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

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Gay-Lussac Scientific  

/ 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.

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Gay-Lussac

Around that same time, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac concluded that acids are substances that can neutralize bases and that these two classes of substances can be defined only in terms of each other.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Taking full advantage of social networking, she contacted Laplace's influential widow and dined with the physicists François Arago, Jean-Baptiste Biot and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.

From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014

Gay-Lussac he placed "at the head of the living chemists of France."

From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Two young physicists, Biot and Gay-Lussac, were chosen to carry out the investigations.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch