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At sufficiently low pressures the behaviour of all gases is closely described by the statement ‘the volume V of a given mass of gas is inversely proportional to its pressure p, provided that the temperature remains constant’. This statement is known as Boyle’s law and may be written
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© 1993 Michael Sprackling
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Sprackling, M. (1993). Gases and the Ideal Gas Scale of Temperature. In: Heat and Thermodynamics. Macmillan College Work Out Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12690-3_3
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