biography
| name: |
Petit, Alexis (Thérèse)
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pronunciation:
[puhtee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1791–1820)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Vesoul, W France. Professor at the Lycée Bonaparte, he enunciated with Pierre Louis Dulong the law of Dulong and Petit, that for all elements the product of the specific heat and the relative atomic mass (atomic weight) is approximately the same, about 25 J/K. |
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