Gay-Lussac's law

English

Etymology

Proposed by French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.

Proper noun

Gay-Lussac's law

  1. (chemistry, historical) A gas law stating that when held at constant volume, the pressure of a gas is proportional to its temperature (now subsumed by the ideal gas law).
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