| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Boyle, Robert |
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| DATES: | 16271691 |
| Irish-born British physicist and chemist whose precise definitions of chemical elements and reactions began the separation of chemistry from alchemy. In 1662 he formulated Boyle's law.
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