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

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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The way was paved in the first instance by a more complete study of the laws of gases, to which Laplace, Dalton, Gay-Lussac, Dulong and many others contributed both on the experimental and theoretical side.

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The name Gaylussacia commemorates the famous French chemist Gay-Lussac.

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No doubt this superior quality is owing to the fact, that the famous chemist, Gay-Lussac, devoted much of his time to assisting in the manufacture carried on at these works.

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

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It was first isolated in 1815 by J. Gay-Lussac, who obtained it by heating mercury or silver cyanide; this discovery is of considerable historical importance, since it recorded the isolation of a “compound radical.”

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