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Guy-Lussac's 1st and Laws

Guy-Lussac's 2nd law relates to pressure before and after a chemical reaction for a sample of gas

For a fixed mass of gas held within a fixed volume, the pressure of gas is proportional to its absolute temperature

Guy-Lussac's 1st law relates to volume before and after a chemical reaction for a sample of gas

For a fixed mass of gas at constant pressure, the volume of gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature

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* All information on this site has come from lecture notes and the associated course text books: 'Atmospheric Science: An introductory survey, 2nd edition, J. M. Hobbs and P. V. Wallace' and 'Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment, 10th edition (International), C. D. Ahrens.' Some sections may have been rephrased and altered slightly but all content came from the above mentioned sources unless otherwise stated. 

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