"Gay-Lussac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the necessity of yeast for the fermentation of sugar was furnished by Appert, whose method of preserving perishable articles of food excited so much attention in France at the beginning of this century. Gay-Lussac, in his "Memoire sur la Fermentation,"[2] alludes to Appert's method of preserving beer-wort unfermented for an indefinite time, by simply boiling the wort and closing the vessel in which the boiling fluid is contained, in such a way as thoroughly ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... the volume of air which it displaces will rise in the atmosphere; those of Roziers were undertaken to prove that man can apply this principle for the purpose of making actual aerial voyages; those of Robertson, Gay-Lussac, &c., were undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining certain meteorological phenomena; those of Conte Coutelle applied aerostation to military uses. A considerable number were made with the view of organising a system of aerial navigation analogous to that of the ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
... regards fermentation, the minds of chemists, influenced probably by the great authority of Gay-Lussac, fell back upon the old notion of matter in a state of decay. It was not the living yeast-plant, but the dead or dying parts of it, which, assailed by oxygen, produced the fermentation. Pasteur, however, proved the real 'ferments,' mediate or immediate, to be organised beings which find in the reputed ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... well enough to note, that, when we use the word volume or measure, in speaking of the atmosphere or any gaseous body, we adopt the theory of Gay-Lussac, who discovered that gases unite with each other in definite proportions whenever they enter into combination. This theory led to important results; for by knowing the elements of a compound gas, we ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... month embraces the name of M. GAY-LUSSAC, one of the great scientific men of Paris. The Presse says that few men have led a life so useful, and marked by so many labors. There is no branch of the physical and chemical sciences which is not indebted to ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various |
