1. French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850); [syn: Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gay-Lussac
n 1: French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and
who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases
under constant pressure (1778-1850) [syn: Gay-Lussac,
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]