Gay-Lussac
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noun
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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
This method was developed by Hofmann in 1868, who replaced the short tube of Gay-Lussac by an ordinary barometer tube, thus effecting the volatilization in a Torricellian vacuum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Promoted to a professorship at the Jardin des Plantes, Gay-Lussac labored there incessantly until his death.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
Gay-Lussac rose in his balloon to the much higher elevation of twenty-three thousand feet, only to be eclipsed by your own countryman, Green, who soared to the astounding height of twenty-seven thousand six hundred feet.
From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon
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