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Q.Name two items that can serve as a model for Gay Lussac's law and explain.

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Step 1. Gay-Lussac's law requires a fixed volume of gas whose pressure is observed to change with temperature.

Step 2. A car tyre is a sealed, essentially rigid volume of trapped air: on a hot day, the trapped air heats up, and its pressure rises measurably above what it was on a cold day, even though no air was added -- exactly the P∝TP\propto T relationship at constant V.

Step 3. An aerosol can is likewise a sealed, fixed-volume container of pressurised gas: if it is heated (left in a hot car, or thrown into a fire), the trapped gas's pressure rises in direct proportion to its Kelvin temperature, which is precisely why aerosol cans carry an explicit warning against heating -- past a certain temperature, the pressure rise is enough to rupture the can.

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A car tyre and an aerosol can both model Gay-Lussac's law (P proportional to T at constant V).

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