Gay-Lussac
[gey-luh-sak; French gey-ly-sak]
- Jo·seph Lou·is [joh-zuh f loo-ee, -suh f; French zhaw-zef lwee] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf ˈlu i, -səf; French ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/, 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.
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Hydrocyanic acid was discovered by Scheele; but its nature and chemical properties were first investigated by Gay-Lussac.
Gay-Lussac he placed "at the head of the living chemists of France."
Famous Men of ScienceSarah K. Bolton
In Europe, Gay-Lussac's hydrometer and tables are chiefly used for alcoholometric testing.
In the year 1805 he and Gay-Lussac were in Paris, engaged in their experiments on the compression of air.
The Queer, the Quaint and the QuizzicalFrank H. Stauffer
Makers of chlorate of potash and cyanide of potassium are profiting largely by the discoveries of Scheele, Gay-Lussac, and others.
The Scientific Basis of National ProgressGeorge Gore
Gay-Lussac
- 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′]
- 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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