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Noun

1. boyle, kay boyle

United States writer (1902-1992)

2. boyle, robert boyle

Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Boyle

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noun
1. 
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)
2. 
Danny. born 1956, English film director whose work includes Trainspotting (1996) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008); artistic director of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics

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Boyle

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Robert1627-91; Brit. chemist & physicist, born in Ireland

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Boyle

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Irish-born British physicist and chemist whose precise definitions of chemical elements and reactions began the separation of chemistry from alchemy.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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