Mariotte's law
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 the pressure of an ideal gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the volume wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Boyle's law dated
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The French physicist Edme Mariotte (1620–1684) discovered the law independent of Boyle in 1679, but Boyle had already published it in 1662.