When a gas is compressed, its volume decreases. Who discovered through scientific experiments the quantitative relation between the pressure and volume of gases?

Sir Thomas Roe

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Sir Albert Einstein

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Sir Robert Boyle

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The correct option is D Sir Robert Boyle
Boyle’s law, also called Mariotte’s law, a relation concerning the compression and expansion of a gas at constant temperature. This empirical relation, formulated by the physicist Robert Boyle in 1662, states that the pressure (p) of a given quantity of gas varies inversely with its volume (v) at a constant temperature.

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p_{i}

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