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Born December 6, 1778 • France
Died May 9, 1850 (aged 71) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Charles’s law • Gay-Lussac’s law of combining volumes • atmosphere • boron • chemical analysis • cyanogen • gas • hydrogen chloride • hydrogen fluoride • iodine • potassium • sodium • volumetric analysis

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