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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot in their balloon on 24 August 1804.
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Meteorology: With chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, he measured the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778 – 1850) grew up during both the French and Chemical Revolutions.
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After Liebig finished his university studies in Germany, his ambitions led him to work in Paris with Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, who was in the forefront of chemical research at that time.
Von Liebig, Justus 2009
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Born at Saint Léonard, Haut-Vienne, in 1788, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac distinguished himself early in his career as a scientist by his aerial voyages in company with Biot for the observation of atmospheric phenomena at great heights.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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During these same years the rising authority of the French chemical world, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, was conducting experiments with gases, which he had undertaken at first in conjunction with Humboldt, but which later on were conducted independently.
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At the same time Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was coming up with the idea that there was a relationship between volumes of gasses at a constant temperature and pressure.
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At the same time Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was coming up with the idea that there was a relationship between volumes of gasses at a constant temperature and pressure.
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1808) showed that a sample of gas, at a fixed pressure, increases in volume linearly with the temperature, i.e. Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes to state what is now commonly called Avogadro's law: equal volumes of any two gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1808) showed that a sample of gas, at a fixed pressure, increases in volume linearly with the temperature, i.e. V / T is constant.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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