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What are the gas laws?

Three laws collectively explain the behavior of gases. While these laws are not perfectly followed by any real gas, many common gases do obey them under certain conditions, particularly at high temperatures and low pressures. A "real gas" simply means any gas that really exists, as opposed to an idealized gas or theoretical gas. The gas laws operate according to a theoretical framework. An ideal gas is one that is supposed to behave, exactly, within the parameters defined in an equation. However, there are so many environmental variables, that real (or "actual") gases don't behave exactly the same as any particular equation or law predicts.

1. Boyle's law, created by British scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691) in the 1600s, states that the volume of a given mass of gas at a constant temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure. In other words, air under pressure becomes compressed. This is what...

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