To: inquest
Not in Boyle's law. You'd think that with a name like Boyle there would be some mention of heat.
38 posted on
02/05/2006 3:04:24 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: RightWhale
Boyle also lived during the 17th century, before any good understanding of what energy was had developed. Heat is just a form of energy. And the fact that heat or energy had no impact on Boyle's Law doesn't mean that it didn't exist in gases. Boyle wasn't even claiming (so far as I know) to be describing everything about a gas that there is. He was just describing an interrelationship between certain qualities of the gas.
45 posted on
02/05/2006 3:13:44 PM PST by
inquest
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