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* 1660 – Robert Boyle experimentally discovers Boyle's Law, relating the pressure and volume of a gas ( published 1662 )
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1660 and Robert
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The second of these essays ( De la nature de l ' air ) contains the statement of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely as the pressure, which, though very generally called by the name of Mariotte, had been discovered in 1660 by Robert Boyle.
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