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What is Boyle's law?
Boyle's law states that:
      The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system.
which can be written as:
                          P \propto \frac{1}{V}
                             or
                PV = k
where:
P is the pressure of the gas
V is the volume of the gas
k is a constant.


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