Boyle's law
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Boyle's law states that
where is the pressure, is the volume and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k} is a constant. This holds true for an ideal gas.
History[edit]
Boyle's law is attributed to both Robert Boyle and to Edme Mariotte. However, it seems that it was originally proposed by Henry Power in 1661 [1].
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References[edit]
- ↑ Henry Power "Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis." Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin and James Allestry (1664)