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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
Scientifically speaking, how likely is it that the 'ideal gas law' resulted in deflating footballs before 2014 AFC Championship game.
Quite likely.
Historically, the story goes back to Archimedes of Syracuse ca 250 BCE. He studied buoyancy and density for the first time in recorded western history.
Jump forward 1850 years to Gallileo (ca 1600), who demonstrated that changes in temperature of a fluid cause it to change its density, too.
Then another 50 years or so to Pascal and Boyle (ca 1650) demonstrating that force equals pressure times area and that the pressure times the volume of a closed system is constant.
Then about 1800 it all takes off. Charles Law (1787) that volume over temperature is a constant. About the same time Avogadro did his seminal work in chemistry and told us his namesake number, 6.022(10)^23. In 1809 Gay-Lussac showed that pressure over temperature of a closed system is also constant.
Then a 35 year old in 1834 named Emil Clapeyron was all, "lolz, PV = nRT, ya noobs. Get gud."
This is all pretty well documented, too. In famous old books that people been talking about for centuries in other books.
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