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Chemical Education Today
From Past Issues
Robert Boyle: The Founder of Modern Chemistry
Kathryn R. Williams
Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200

earthday

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February 2009
Vol. 86 No. 2
p. 148
Abstract
When I learned that the 2009 Earth Day features "air", I started thinking about a suitable way to link the topic to past JCE issues. No small task, considering that I had already covered oxygen and nitrogen in the 2003 and 2005 Earth Day issues. So much for chemical composition. So, I turned to physical properties—the gas laws—that could equally be called the "air laws", since "air" was a generic word for a gas in the centuries when the laws were formulated. For Earth Day 2009, I focus on Robert Boyle, who discovered the first of the gas laws. In addition to at least 20 papers describing Boyle's Law demonstrations and experiments, The Honorable Robert Boyle (1627–1691) is the subject of five papers in JCE.
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Citation
Williams, Kathryn R. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 148.
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Keywords
Atomic Properties / Structure; Gases; High School / Introductory Chemistry; History / Philosophy
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1/8/2009
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