Mariotte's law
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Mariotte's law
1895–1900; named after Edme Mariotte (died 1684), French physicist
Example Sentences
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For example, Boyle’s law, which links a gas’s pressure and volume, is often known in France as Mariotte’s law, after seventeenth century physicist Edme Mariotte, who discovered it independently of Anglo-Irish Robert Boyle.
From Nature • Oct. 29, 2018
The usual manner of testing the expansion curve of a diagram is to compare it with a curve representing Mariotte’s law for the expansion of a perfect gas.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
It is because of this internal work that the steam in expanding does not strictly follow Mariotte’s law.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The total mass will follow with fair closeness Mariotte's law, but the characteristic constant will no longer be the same as in the case of a non-dissociated gas.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
According to Boyle and Mariotte's law it would be 37,534 lb., the difference being 594 lb., or a loss of 1.6 per cent.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various
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