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The French physicist Edme Mariotte (1620–1684) discovered the same law independently of Boyle in 1679, [11] after Boyle had published it in 1662. [10] Mariotte did, however, discover that air volume changes with temperature. [12] Thus this law is sometimes referred to as Mariotte's law or the Boyle–Mariotte law.
Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
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In time, Boyle's Law was formulated, which states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional. Then, in 1679, based on these concepts, an associate of Boyle's named Denis Papin built a steam digester , which was a closed vessel with a tightly fitting lid that confined steam until a high pressure was generated.
The Boyle temperature, named after Robert Boyle, is formally defined as the temperature for which the second virial coefficient, (), becomes zero. It is at this temperature that the attractive forces and the repulsive forces acting on the gas particles balance out
“You’re like Susan Boyle’s grandson, because what you do is not what we expect,” Cowell proclaimed, referring to the BGT runner-up opera singer whose “I Dreamed a Dream” performance ...
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Boyle, published in London in 1661. In the form of a dialogue, the Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of corpuscles and clusters of corpuscles in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion.
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