1. 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); [syn: Boyle, Robert Boyle]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Robert Boyle
n 1: 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)
[syn: Boyle, Robert Boyle]