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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

/ ˈɡeɪˈluːsæk; ɡɛlysak /

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
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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.


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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