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Robert Boyle is credited in the text for discovering what relationship?
ANewton's gravitational law
BSpeed of light in vacuum
CInverse relation of pressure and volume of a gas
DDirect relation of pressure and temperature
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Inverse relation of pressure and volume of a gas
1. The Scientific Inventions section names early gas researchers.
2. Boyle is identified as the alchemist who studied gas behaviour.
3. The text says he found that 'absolute pressure and the volume of a gas are inversely proportional'.
_Source: Maharashtra Balbharati Std XII History, Ch 1 "Renaissance in Europe and Development of Science", §1.4 ¶1_
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