Chemistry · Ch 10 — States of Matter
Ideal Gas Equation
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Ideal Gas Equation
An ideal gas is defined as one that obeys, strictly and at all pressures and temperatures, all three of Boyle's law, Charles's law and Avogadro's law simultaneously. No real gas is truly ideal, but real gases behave very nearly ideally under conditions where intermolecular interactions are practically negligible -- typically low pressure and relatively high temperature. Even though a perfectly ideal gas does not exist in nature, combining the three individual gas laws mathematically into one single equation of state tur …