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A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ... - Page 117
edited by - 1851 - 258 pages
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The Technology of Bread-making: Including the Chemistry and Analytical and ...

William Jago - Bread - 1921 - 654 pages
...subjected : this variation is governed by what is called Boyle and Marriotte's Law — The volume of any gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected. The most important variations of pressure to which gases are liable are those resulting from the changee...
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Introduction to General Chemistry

William Foster - Chemistry - 1924 - 736 pages
...Boyle's Law may be stated thus : The ternperature remaining constant, the volume of a given mass of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected. This law means that if the pressure applied to a gas is doubled, the volume is halved, etc. Any change...
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Mathematics in the Junior High School

John Roscoe Clark - Mathematics - 1925 - 170 pages
...of a fraction varies directly as its numerator and inversely as its denominator; (2) the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected; (3) the horsepower of a gas engine varies as the number of its pistons, and the square of their area;...
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basic engineering science n4

Engineering - 1988 - 100 pages
...between volume and pressure at constant temperature and reads as follows: • The volume of a given mass of gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected, if the temperature remains constant. Volume (V) oc pressure(P) or V = constant x — PV = constant...
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A Comprehensive Curriculum for Trauma Nursing

Elizabeth W. Bayley, Susan Allyn Turcke - Emergency nursing - 1992 - 604 pages
...concepts related to altitude a. Gas laws (1) Boyle's — at a constant temperature, the volume of a given gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected (2); as altitude increases, barometric pressure decreases and gas expands (2) Dalton's — the pressure...
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Metaphors and Action Schemes: Some Themes in Intellectual History

Robert L. Schwarz - Civilization, Western - 1997 - 300 pages
...Guericke 's design and began experimenting with gases, ultimately discovering that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected (Boyle's Law). This shattered the ancient idea that air, as one of the four elements, is a homogeneous...
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Human Factors in the Training of Pilots

Jefferson M. Koonce - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 634 pages
...this reduction in pressure causes enclosed gases to expand. Boyles Law states that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected with temperature remaining constant. When an airplane or its cabin goes up in altitude, trapped gases...
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Total Burn Care

David N. Herndon - Brūlures - 2007 - 893 pages
...unresponsive to corrective measures. required under such circumstances. Boyle's law states that the volume of gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subject at a constant temperature. This gas law significantly affects patients with air leaks and free...
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The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 40

Paper industry - 1903 - 1056 pages
...volume of 30-273, which is equal to about O'll per cent. According to Boyle's law, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected, or, in other words, the greater the pressure the less the volume. A gas which, at normal pressure,...
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Research bulletin, Volumes 5-6

1927 - 672 pages
...relationship that exists between amount of interest and rate, time and principal ; the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure to which it is subjected, etc. What to teach in junior high school mathematics — The best evidence of the present trend or...
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