Boyle

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Boyle

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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

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.

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Like the character Ana, who leaves Boyle Heights to follow her dreams in the Big Apple, López moved to New York City at 18 years old.

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Where since the 1980s, Father John Moretta has counseled parishioners at Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights on the troubles that afflict their neighborhood.

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There were over 20 minutes, plus stoppage time, to play after Martin Boyle sprinted through the wide open Ibrox spaces to put the visitors two goals up.

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His father, Roberto, acquired it shortly after purchasing a pool hall called First Street Billiards in Boyle Heights.

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Smith, a former talk radio host and newspaper columnist, was asked by Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle about the Poilievre-Trump relationship.

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boyla Boyle's law

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