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Also Known As	Mariotte’s law • first gas law

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kinetic theory of gases compression gas laws ideal gas law Avogadro’s law Charles’s law Dalton’s law

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Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer

Boyle's law

Edme Mariotte

French physicist

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