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| | Ideal Gas Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | An ideal gas is a gas that conforms, in physical behaviour, to a particular, idealized relation between pressure, volume, and temperature called the ideal gas law. |
 | | Although no gas has these properties, the behaviour of real gases is described quite closely by the ideal gas law at sufficiently high temperatures and low pressures, when relatively large distances between molecules and their high speeds overcome any interaction. |
 | | The ideal gas law may be written in a form applicable to any gas, according to Avogadro's law (q.v.), if the constant specifying the quantity of gas is expressed in terms of the number of molecules of gas. |
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