Gay-Lussac
Speech parts
1. Gay-Lussac - Noun
2. Gay-Lussac - Proper noun
Meaning
French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
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Brock, pp. 34–55 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac recognized in 1808 that gases always react in a certain relationship with each other.
Charles's law or Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (1787) In 1787 the French physicist Jacques Charles found that oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and air expand to the same extent over the same 80 kelvin interval.
Gay-Lussac narrowly avoided conscription and by the time of entry to the École Polytechnique his father had been arrested (due to Robespierre 's Reign of Terror ).
Gay-Lussac and Thénard used iron to reduce boric acid at high temperatures.
Gay-Lussac's Law main Gay-Lussac's Law, Amontons' Law or the Pressure Law, was found by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1809.
He also gave some of the substance to chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), and to physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836).