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History of Chemistry 1 - Boyle vs. Newton

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Robert Boyle experimented with gas pressure to find an inversely proportional relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas.
Isaac Newton explained this relationship using his mathematical model of the inverse square law. The gas particles must be stationary corpuscles that exert a greater force as they are squeezed together.
Boyle thought that Newton's model was adequate, but that it was also plausible that the corpuscles were in motion. The ensuing collisions exerted a force and that constraining the volume increased the collision frequency.
What evidence would end up distinguishing between these two models?
Isaac Newton explained this relationship using his mathematical model of the inverse square law. The gas particles must be stationary corpuscles that exert a greater force as they are squeezed together.
Boyle thought that Newton's model was adequate, but that it was also plausible that the corpuscles were in motion. The ensuing collisions exerted a force and that constraining the volume increased the collision frequency.
What evidence would end up distinguishing between these two models?