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Gay-Lussac

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Gay-Lus·sac  (gl-sk, -lü-säk), Joseph Louis 1778-1850.
French chemist and physicist who isolated the element boron (1809) and formulated a law that explains the behavior of a gas under constant pressure.
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Noun1.Gay-LussacGay-Lussac - French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac


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Brioschi and Gay-Lussac did; but then the blood burst from their mouths and ears.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
Gay-Lussac the chemist, Laplace the astronomer, Larrey the surgeon, de Suze the advocate, are here, and with them are Talma, Bellini, Rubini; de Balzac, Beaumarchais, Beranger; Moliere and Lafontaine, and scores of other men whose names and whose worthy labors are as familiar in the remote by-places of civilization as are the historic deeds of the kings and princes that sleep in the marble vaults of St.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
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