Who discovered that water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume ........

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Who discovered that water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume?

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Henri-Victor Regnault

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778 – 1850) was a French chemist who with Alexander von Humboldt discovered that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. He is also known to have worked on alcohol-water mixtures, due to which Gay-Lussac unit / degree is used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries. He is also known to have discovered Iodine.