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Charles's law
(Encyclopedia)Charles's law: see gas laws.Boyle's law
(Encyclopedia)Boyle's law: see gas laws.Peters, Samuel
(Encyclopedia)Peters, Samuel, 1735–1826, American clergyman and historian, b. Hebron, Conn. Because of his Loyalist sympathies, he fled to England in 1774. There he wrote for English periodicals and published A G...gun control
(Encyclopedia)gun control, government limitation of the purchase and ownership of firearms. The availability of guns is controlled by nations and localities throughout the world. In the United States the “right o...Gay-Lussac's law
(Encyclopedia)Gay-Lussac's law: see gas laws.alienation
(Encyclopedia)alienation, in property laws: see tenure. ...universal gas constant
(Encyclopedia)universal gas constant: see gas laws. ...invariance principles
(Encyclopedia)invariance principles: see conservation laws. ...van der Waals equation
(Encyclopedia)van der Waals equation: see gas laws. ...Heraclea
(Encyclopedia)Heraclea hĕrəklēˈə [key], ancient Greek city, in Lucania, S Italy, not far from the Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto). There Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 280 b.c. Bronze tablets giving Roman municipal...Browse by Subject
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