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“Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 ... The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.”

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a renowned French chemist born on December 6, 1778, in Lyon, France, and died on May 9, 1850. He made significant contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in the areas of gas laws and chemical thermodynamics. more

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