What does boyle mean?

Answer 1

Boyle, Robert (1627-92) Irish scientist. Born the fourteenth son of the first earl of Cork, Boyle was able to pursue an independent life devoted to scientific and academic matters. He was the most important British chemist of his time, whose work on gases is remembered in Boyle's law. He was an important figure in the 17th-century rejection of Aristotelian emphases on final causes, believing that all the properties of materials can be explained by the size, shape, and motion of particles, and the textures to which their associations give rise. His major work was The Sceptical Chemist (1661), but he wrote widely not only on chemical but on philosophical and theological matters. His General History of the Air was published in 1692. His conception of the qualities of things, and the division between primary and secondary qualities, was a major influence on http://www.answers.com/topic/john-locke. i think that's what you're looking for? boyle itself is not a word x

Answer 2

Boyle's law (sometimes referred to as the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of several gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. The law was named after chemist and physicist Robert Boyle, who published the original law in 1662. The law itself can be stated as follows:

For a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, P [pressure]and V [volume] are inversely proportional (while one increases, the other decreases).