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Knowledge database: 2.7 Boyle-Marriote's law

Boyle-Marriote's or just Boyle's law states that the volume of a gas, at a constant temperature, is in a inversely proportional relationship with pressure. This means that when one increases the pressure, the volume is reduced, and when the pressure is reduced, the volume increases. Of course, when viewed through the perspective of the other physical property, when one increases the volume, the pressure decreases, and when one reduces the volume, the pressure increases.

This law can simply be expressed by the formula p * V = const., Where p is the pressure and V is the volume. Product of these two quantities is always constant, which means that when one of the properties is increased, the other one decreases and vice versa, as described in the preceding paragraph.

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Additionally, this law can be visualized with the help of the graph shown above. The graph clearly shows that the volume and pressure are inversely proportional.

 

1. Basics

2. Basic laws of chemistry
  2.1 Law of conservation of mass
  2.2 Law of definite proportions
  2.3 Law of multiple proportions
  2.4 Law of reciprocal proportions
  2.5 Law of combining volumes
  2.6 Avogadro's law
  2.7 Boyle-Mariotte's law
  2.8 Charles-Gay-Lussac's law
  2.9 Ideal gas law

3. Stoichiometry

4. Chemical reactions

5. Chemical equilibrium