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Avogadro’s law Boyle’s law Charles’s law Dalton’s law equation of state Gay-Lussac’s law of combining volumes ideal gas law Avogadro’s number universal gas constant gas kinetic theory of gases Joule-Thomson effect ideal gas degenerate gas monatomic gas syngas

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William Prout

British chemist