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Gay-Lussac's law definition

Gay-Lussac's· law (gā′lə saks′)

  1. the statement that the volumes of two or more gases that combine to give a gaseous product are in the proportion of small whole numbers to each other and to the volume of the product
  2. Charles's law

Etymology: after Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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