Talk:Gay-Lussac's law

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Contents 1 Amonton's Law 2 Add a Graphic? 3 No name? Pressure law? Maybe not Gay-Lussac's law 4 Gay-Lussac's Law is *Not* the Pressure-Temperature Law

[edit] Amonton's Law

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It has been speculated that Amonton was the first to note that Pressure was in direct relationship to Temperature. Should this be added to this article, noting that the Gay-Lussac Law is sometimes refered to as Amonton's Law? Dreamm 00:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Add a Graphic?

Should there be a simple graphic that shows the relationship between pressure and temperature (as pressure increases, temperature increases)?

I agree. An additional illustration to show the relationship using idealized hard spheres would also be nice.-- Beland 07:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No name? Pressure law? Maybe not Gay-Lussac's law

I was taught at high school that this law is not named after anyone, and is normally called the "pressure law". Here is what I have found at http://hypertextbook.com/physics/thermal/gas-laws/

The pressure of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature when volume is constant. Symbolically …

P ∝ T

An isochoric process is one that takes place without any change in volume.

This relationship doesn't really have a name, but I have heard it called the "pressure law" or (mistakenly) "Gay-Lussac's law".

The basic gas law relationships … The pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume when temperature is constant. This relationship is known as Boyle's law or Mariotte's law. The volume of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature when pressure is constant. This relationship is known as Charles' law or Gay-Lussac's law. The pressure of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature when volume is constant. This relationship is not associated with any particular scientist.

--Wei Cheng 06:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gay-Lussac's Law is *Not* the Pressure-Temperature Law

Wei Cheng is correct. The pressure-temperature law has been misidentified as Gay-Lussac's law for years. You will not find any original references to it as such and only chemistry texts and documents that cite chemistry texts incorrectly call it Gay-Lussac's law.

Gay-Lussac's law is the law of combining volumes. The volume-temperature law is identified as either Charles' law or Gay-Lussac's law. Historically, it was originally called Gay-Lussac's law until some prior experimental work led to it being associated with Charles. There is disagreement as to whether Gay-Lussac or Charles' should receive priority. Books I've read state that the volume-temperature law is called Gay-Lussac's in some regions of the world and Charles' law in other regions.

Textbooks often use other textbooks as references and this is the reason this error continues to propagate.

Alanearhart 01:30, 19 August 2007 (UTC)