Gas Laws - Gay-Lussac's Law

Gay-Lussac's Law

Gay-Lussac's law, or the pressure law, was found by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1809. It states that the pressure exerted on a container's sides by an ideal gas is proportional to the absolute temperature.

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