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Figure 2: The atomic arrangements in (A) a crystalline solid, (B) an amorphous solid, and (C) a gas.

Bernoulli model of gas pressure

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Bernoulli model of gas pressure

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley

English clergyman and scientist

James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish mathematician and physicist

Cavendish, Henry

Henry Cavendish

British physicist

Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.

Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac

French scientist

Sir Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy

British chemist

John Dalton

John Dalton

British scientist

J.J. Thomson

J.J. Thomson

British physicist

Langmuir, Irving

Irving Langmuir

American chemist

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer

Amedeo Avogadro

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian physicist

Helmont, Jan Baptista van

Jan Baptista van Helmont

Belgian scientist

Johannes Diederik van der Waals

Dutch physicist

Sir John Sealy Townsend

Irish physicist

Henri-Victor Regnault

Henri-Victor Regnault

French chemist and physicist

Eugen Goldstein

German physicist

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