Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (UK: /ɡeɪˈluːsæk/ gay-LOO-sak, US: /ˌɡeɪləˈsæk/ GAY-lə-SAK, French: [ʒozɛf lwi ɡɛlysak]; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French...
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Gay-Lussac's law usually refers to Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes of gases, discovered in 1808 and published in 1809. However, it sometimes...
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associated crater Gay-Lussac A is nearly joined to the southeast rim. The crater is named after French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. To the southwest...
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Alcohol by volume (redirect from Degrees Gay-Lussac)
to as degrees Gay-Lussac (after the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac), although there is a slight difference since the Gay-Lussac convention uses...
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Charles's law (redirect from Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac)
fixed points of temperature. The French natural philosopher Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac confirmed the discovery in a presentation to the French National Institute...
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Gas laws (section Gay-Lussac's law)
in this article). Gay-Lussac's law, Amontons' law or the pressure law was founded by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1808. Gay-Lussac's law states that: The...
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chemist Bernard Courtois in 1811 and was named two years later by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, after the Ancient Greek Ιώδης, meaning 'violet'. Iodine occurs in...
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describing how gases tend to expand when heated, was formulated by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1802, but he credited it to unpublished work by Charles. Charles...
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chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac for the French mint.[clarification needed] By the time of the Klondike gold rush, mints were replacing Gay-Lussac's acid process...
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friendship with Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and the two carried out many research projects together. For their research, Gay-Lussac and Thénard would receive...
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diplomat Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French physicist Jotham Gay (1733–1802), army officer, political figure in Nova Scotia Leslie Gay (1871–1949)...
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scientific community by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. Today, this principle of thermodynamics is commonly known as Gay-Lussac's law but is also known as Amonton's...
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John Dalton's list of molecular weights is first published. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac discovers that water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part...
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Gay-Lussac was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the first decade of the 20th century. The Pluviôse class...
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alcohol by volume is referred to as degrees Gay-Lussac (after the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac). France, Spain and the United Kingdom use the...
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The Gay-Lussac–Humboldt Prize is a German–French science prize. It was created in 1981 by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and German Chancellor...
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Gas (section Gay-Lussac's law)
{V_{2}}{T_{2}}}} In 1802, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac published results of similar, though more extensive experiments. Gay-Lussac credited Charles' earlier work...
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concepts of organic chemistry. One of these was the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, who was especially interested in fermentation processes, and he passed...
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and the yet undiscovered element, muriaticum. In 1809, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thénard tried to decompose dephlogisticated muriatic acid...
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from other substances. He enunciated Gay-Lussac's law, published in 1802 by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (Gay-Lussac credited the discovery to unpublished...
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chemically basic and alkaloidal substance. It was proposed by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in an editorial accompanying a paper by Friedrich Sertürner describing...
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Hessian government. He worked in the private laboratory of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and was also befriended by Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier...
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element until it was isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard. In 1808 Davy observed that electric current sent...
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substance but gave samples to various researchers. It was named by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac who thought it either a compound of oxygen or an element. A few days...
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The French chemists Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) patented stearin in 1825. Like tallow, this was derived...
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sample of known volume. Avogadro developed this hypothesis after Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac published his law on volumes (and combining gases) in 1808. The greatest...
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Andrés Guazurary, Argentine general (d. 1825) December 6 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist (d. 1850) December 7 – Franz Naegele, German obstetrician...
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("brine"). After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young...
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Karlova Koruna Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law) Carl...
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and are likewise calqued into German as Sauerstoff). In 1811, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac prepared pure, liquified hydrogen cyanide, and in 1815 he deduced Prussic...
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