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  1. 1785-1838. French chemist and physicist who,
  2. along with Petit, discovered in 1819 the law
  3. that, for many elements solid at room
  4. temperature, the product of the atomic weight
  5. and specific heat capacity is approximately
  6. constant. He had earlier, in 1811, and at the
  7. cost of an eye, discovered the explosive
  8. nitrogen trichloride.
  9.