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Proposed by French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.
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Today it means: 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). Full definition →
Proposed by French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.