Squeezing a gas boosts its pressure dramatically
Boyle's Law explains that compressing a gas dramatically increases its pressure, a vital principle influencing everything from bicycle pumps to life-saving medical treatments.
Boyle's Law, discovered in 1662, reveals a fundamental truth about gases: their pressure and volume are inversely linked. If you halve a gas's volume while keeping its temperature steady, its pressure will double. This principle is why squeezing a bicycle pump plunger makes air shoot out with force, or why scuba divers experience increasing pressure as they descend.
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