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Boyles Law

P1V1=P2V2

Boyles Law states that the volume of a gas increases when the pressure decreases at a constant temperatures that the volume of a gas increases when the pressure decreases at a constant temperature.Boyle's law is commonly used to predict the result of introducing a change, in volume and pressure only, to the initial state of a fixed quantity of gas.Boyle observed that the product of the pressure and volume are observed to be nearly constant. The product of pressure and volume is exactly a constant for an ideal gas.When two variables are inversely proportional the product of the two variables will always remain constant. Because of the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas sample at constant temperature, if you double the value of one, you divide the other by two.

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