Definitions for Gay-Lussac

Gay-Lussac Gay-Lus·sac

Spelling: [gey-luh-sak; French gey-ly-
IPA: /ˌgeɪ ləˈsæk; French geɪ lüˈsæk/

Gay-Lussac is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in Gay-Lussac (-aacglssuy).

Definitions for Gay-Lussac

noun

  1. Joseph Louis [joh-zuh f loo-ee,, -suh f;; French zhaw-zef lwee] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf ˈlu i,, -səf;; French ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.

Examples for Gay-Lussac

In Europe, Gay-Lussac's hydrometer and tables are chiefly used for alcoholometric testing.

In the year 1805 he and Gay-Lussac were in Paris, engaged in their experiments on the compression of air.

According to Gay-Lussac, the increased volume was 1375 cubic inches.

Gay-Lussac he placed "at the head of the living chemists of France."

Impure spirits of 40° Gay-Lussac, and not water, should be used as a menstruum for the salt of copper.

The high range of the barometer indicated a very considerable elevation of the trade at the time Gay-Lussac made his ascension.

Hydrocyanic acid was discovered by Scheele; but its nature and chemical properties were first investigated by Gay-Lussac.

There is scarcely a branch of physical or chemical science to which Gay-Lussac did not contribute some important discovery.

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

Makers of chlorate of potash and cyanide of potassium are profiting largely by the discoveries of Scheele, Gay-Lussac, and others.

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