Boyle's law
Ley de Boyle (presión-volumen de los gases)
- Date
- 1662 · confidence high
- Place
- Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Robert Boyle; Robert Hooke; Edme Mariotte
- People
- 👤 Edme Mariotte1620–1684👤 Robert Boyle1627–1691👤 Robert Hooke1635–1703
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
At constant temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure. The first mathematical law of gas behaviour and a model of the 'experimental law'.
Mariotte published it independently in 1676, adding the constant-temperature condition; in France it is called Mariotte's law. Hooke built Boyle's air pump.
What it led to
- The gas laws (Charles, Gay-Lussac) and the ideal gas
- Kinetic theory of gases
- Thermodynamics
- Design of pumps, compressors and engines
- the ideal gas equation
- pneumatic chemistry
Built on
- Guericke's vacuum pump
- Towneley's and Power's experiments
- Torricelli's barometer
- von Guericke's vacuum pump
Made possible
- Separate-condenser steam engine1765-1769
- Charles's law1787
- Charles's and Gay-Lussac's law1802
- Ideal gas law1834
- Kinetic theory of gases and Maxwell distribution1857-1860
- Diving decompression tables (Haldane)1906-1908
- Compressors and pneumatics
- Diving (decompression tables)
- improved vacuum pump
- pneumatic machines