Also referred to as Pressure-Temperature Law, Gay Lussac’s Law was discovered in 1802 by a French scientist Joseph Louis Gay Lussac. While building an air thermometer, Gay-Lussac accidentally discovered that at fixed volume and mass of a gas, the pressure…
Henry’s law is one of the gas laws and was formulated by the British chemist, William Henry, in 1803. It states that: At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas dissolved in a given type and volume of…
Any change in the magnetic environment of a coil of wire will cause a voltage (emf) to be “induced” in the coil. No matter how the change is produced, the voltage will be generated. This is made clear by Faraday’s…
The study of the relations between heat, work, temperature, and energy is known as thermodynamics. These laws of thermodynamics describe how the energy in a system changes and whether the system can perform useful work on its surroundings. The four…
The periodic law was developed independently by Dmitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer in 1869. The periodic law states that: The physical and chemical properties of the elements recur in a systematic and predictable way when the elements are arranged in…
This particular law was discovered in 1811 by Amedeo Avogadro. Avogadro’s Law states that: Equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules. This particular law was discovered in 1811 by Amedeo…
Also known as the law of volumes, Charles’s law is an experimental gas law that describes how gases tend to expand when heated. The law states that: When the pressure on a sample of a dry gas is held constant,…
Also known as the names of Boyle–Mariotte law or Mariotte’s law, Boyle’s law states that: The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount…
The law of conservation of energy is the first basic law which concerns a thermodynamic system. Julius Robert Mayer discovered the Law of Conservation of Energy. The law states that: The total energy of a system is conserved given it…
The law of conservation of mass is often referred to as the most fundamental concept of chemistry. This was put forward by Antoine Lavoisier. The law of conservation of mass states that: In the process of a chemical reaction, the…