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Gay-Lus⋅sac

[gey-luh-sak; Fr. gey-ly-sak]
–noun
Jo⋅seph Lou⋅is [joh-zuhf loo-ee, -suhf; Fr. zhaw-zef lwee] , 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.
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Gay-Lussac   (gā'lə-sāk')  Pronunciation Key 
French chemist and physicist who in 1808 developed a law governing the ratio of volumes of gases participating in chemical reactions. In that same year, with Louis Jacques Thénard, he discovered the element boron.
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