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  1. Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, 1778–1850. The goal of Gay-Lussac’s experiments was to determine the volume dependence of the internal energy of gases.

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Schwabl, F. (2006). Thermodynamics. In: Statistical Mechanics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36217-7_3

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