Boyle

[ boil ]

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Kay, 1903–1993, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and poet.
Robert, 1627–91, English chemist and physicist.
T. Co·ragh·es·san [kaw , rag, -, uh, -s, uh, n], born 1948, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Boyle

/ bɔɪl /

BoyleRobert16271691MIrishSCIENCE: scientist Robert . 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

Boyle

/ boil /

English physicist and chemist who is regarded as a founder of modern chemistry. Boyle rejected the traditional theory that all matter was composed of four elements and defined an element as a substance that cannot be reduced to other, simpler substances or produced by combining simpler substances. Boyle also conducted important physics experiments with Robert Hooke that led to the development of Boyle's law.

So I begin polishing, Boyle begins to make preliminary drawings, and things are buzzing.

Boyle and I help him back to his desk, where he sits numbly, beyond the help of those who would help him.

And he tells Bob Boyle to start making sketches for the more elaborate sequences.

Federal officials spent Wednesday arresting members of the Boyle Heights-based street gang which has strong ties to La Eme.

Just Boyle taking a bullet in the butt, which is funny and serious.

According to Boyle, a non-luminous and non-reflecting asteroid has crashed into the earth's gravitational field.

Among the children were the famous Orrery, and the yet more famous Robert Boyle.

With the aid of Boyle's and Gay-Lussac's laws, this observed volume is then reduced to standard conditions.

The mantle slipped from Miss Boyle's shoulders, showing her pale, shining dress, and the tender curve of her chin and throat.

Against his own conviction he believed the Earl was indifferent—to Miss Boyle, to everything; but he could not remain content.

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