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This document discusses several gas laws discovered in the late 18th and early 19th centuries including: - Avogadro's law which states that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. - Gay-Lussac's law which established that gas pressure is directly proportional to its temperature. - Boyle's law which states that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional at constant temperature. - Charles's law which describes how gas volume increases proportionally as temperature increases at constant pressure.

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Gas Law Brochure Sample

This document discusses several gas laws discovered in the late 18th and early 19th centuries including: - Avogadro's law which states that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. - Gay-Lussac's law which established that gas pressure is directly proportional to its temperature. - Boyle's law which states that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional at constant temperature. - Charles's law which describes how gas volume increases proportionally as temperature increases at constant pressure.

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  • Gay-Lussac's Law: Presents Gay-Lussac's Law, illustrating the relationship between pressure and temperature at constant volume.
  • Avogadro's Law: Explains Avogadro's Law, discussing the relationship between the volume of gas and moles at constant temperature and pressure.
  • Charles's Law: Explains Charles's Law and its characterization of the direct relationship between volume and temperature of a gas at constant pressure.
  • Boyle's Law: Details Boyle's Law, focusing on the inverse relationship between pressure and volume at constant temperature.
  • Gas Law Overview: Provides a historical overview of gas laws and their development, linking to kinetic molecular theory and ideal gas equation.

Avogadro’s Law Gay-Lussac's Law

Avogadro’s law, a statement that under the Gay-Lussac's law can refer to several
same conditions of temperature and pressure, discoveries made by French chemist Joseph
equal volumes of different gases contain an Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) and other
equal number of molecules. scientists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
This empirical relation can be derived from pertaining to thermal expansion of gasses and
the kinetic theory of gases under the assumption the relationship between temperature, volume,
of a perfect (ideal) gas. and pressure.
The specific number of molecules in one gram-
mole of a substance, defined as the molecular
weightin grams, is 6.022140857 × 1023, a quantity
called Avogadro’s number, or the Avogadro con-
stant. For example, the molecular weight
of oxygen is 32.00, so that one gram-mole of oxy-
He is most often recognized for the Pressure
Law which established that the pressure of an
enclosed gas is directly proportional to its
temperature and which he was the first to
formulate (c. 1808).
Gass
gen has a mass of 32.00 grams and contains
6.022140857 × 1023 molecules.

Law
Gas Law Boyle’s Law Charles’s Law
The gas laws were developed at the Boyle’s law, also called Mariotte’s law, a Charles' law is a special case of the ideal gas
law in which the pressure of a gas is constant.
end of the 18th century, when scientists relation concerning the compression and
expansion of a gasat constant temperature. Charles' law states that volume is proportional
began to realize that relationships
This empirical relation, formulated by the to the absolute temperature of a gas at
between pressure, volume and constant pressure. Doubling the temperature of
physicist Robert Boyle in 1662, states that
temperature of a sample of gas could be the pressure (p) of a given quantity of gas varies gas doubles its volume, so long as the pressure
obtained which would hold to inversely with its volume (v) at constant and quantity of the gas are unchanged.
approximation for all gases. Gases temperature; i.e., in equation form, pv = k, a
behave in a similar way over a wide constant. The relationship was also discovered by
variety of conditions because they all the French physcist Edme Mariotte (1676).
have molecules which are widely spaced,
and the equation of state for an ideal
gas is derived from kinetic theory. The
earlier gas laws are now considered as
special cases of the ideal gas equation,
with one or more variables held
constant.

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