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How Did Robert Boyle Contribute To Chemistry

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Chemistry is the study of physical science that deals with matter, which is anything that takes up space and has mass (Mazzei, 2016). Chemistry is very important to the world people live in today. It provides energy by using nuclear reactors. It allows people the opportunity to have many different products because scientists have discovered the elements and how they can be used. The table of elements is not the only part of chemistry; however, the gas laws, Quantum theory, and many other components. Robert Boyle is one scientists that made significant increases in Chemistry and helped us understand it as it known today. This paper will discuss the life of Robert Boyle and his contributions to the scientific field Robert Boyle was born in Lismore Castle in 1627. He was born into an upper-class family which allowed him to receive the necessary education to pursue a career in the science field. He began to study French and Latin at an early age (Famous Scientists, 2016). He traveled around Europe during his early teenage years to discover how the great scientists of the past learned and studied mathematics, science and many other subjects. He first began his career in alchemy, which trying to make gold out of other substances. After his failed attempts of …show more content…

Here is the formula. P1V1=P2V2. This states as pressure increases volume decreases and if volume increases the pressure will decrease. This discovery of his lead to the creation of the gas equation PV=nRT (Hunter, 2015). This discovery was made while he was in Oxford. Boyle never actually joined the university because he did not need the money or backing to the research since he was independently wealthy. However, in his private laboratory he hired a student to be his lab assistant that aided him in his work (Famous Scientists, 2016). This man was Robert

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