Mariotte's law

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the pressure of an ideal gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the volume wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Boyle's law dated

Etymology

The French physicist Edme Mariotte (1620–1684) discovered the law independent of Boyle in 1679, but Boyle had already published it in 1662.