biography
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| lived:
| (1774–1836)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and practised in Manchester, but soon devoted himself to chemistry. He formulated the law named after him, that the amount of gas absorbed by a liquid varies directly as the pressure of the gas above the liquid, provided no chemical action takes place. A childhood injury led to continuing pain, and he committed suicide. |
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