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| Journal of the History of Ideas• but although Boyle notes he might have published it as part of an appendix to that work, it formed a self-contained whole, dealing with atmospheric pressure with particular reference to liquid masses• New York: Oxford University Press | Canny, Nicholas 1982 , The Upstart Earl: a study of the social and mental world of Richard Boyle, Cambridge• Holum, Fundamentals of Chemistry, 34 Edition, Wiley, New York, 1988 |
While Boyle derived the law solely on experimental grounds, the law can also be derived theoretically based on the presumed existence of atoms and molecules and assumptions about motion and that all matter is made up of a large number of small particles atoms or molecules all of which are in constant, motion.
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| A History of University College, Oxford | Robert Boyle was one of the first people to study this phenomena in 1662 |
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| This is because our ears have an air space in them, and air, like all other gases, is compressible | Rizk, Introduction to Physical Chemistry, Anglo Egyptian, 1978 |
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| It is interesting to think that at this very moment all of us, every living terrestrial organism, are living in a state of pressure | Goldberg, Schaum's Outline Series, Theory and Problems of Chemistry Foundations, International Editions, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991 |