Gases

Properties of Gases

volume
mass
temperature
pressure
GIVE EXAMPLES OF MANIFESTATIONS
OF THESE PROPERTIES
Commonly used units
British
Property SI unit Metric unit
unit
Volume cubic meter (m3) liter (L) quart (qt)
cubic decimeter milliliter (mL) gallon
(m3) (gal)
cubic centimeter
(m3)
Pressure pascal (Pa) atmosphere (atm) torr
millimeters of mercury lb/in2
(mmHg)
centimeters of mercury
(cmHg)
Equivalents
Volume 1mL = 1 cm3
1L = 1 dm3
1m3 = 1000L
Pressure 1 atm = 760 mmHg
= 76 cmHg
= 760 torr
= 101325 Pa
= 14.6956 psi

Temperature 0ºC = 273.15K

= 32ºF
GAS LAWS

Boyle’s Law
Charles’ Law

Gay-Lussac’s Law
Combined Gas Law
Avogadro’s Law
Ideal Gas Law
BOYLE’S
LAW
Boyle’s Law Stated by Robert Boyle in the 16th century
after he performed an experiment where he
trapped a fixed amount of air in the J-tube,
changed the pressure and controlled the
temperature. He found out that as pressure is
increased, volume decreases. Boyle then
concluded that the volume of a fixed amount
of gas is inversely proportional to its pressure
at constant temperature.
Boyle’s Law

Describes the relationship between the volume and the pressure of gases at
constant temperature:

1
V 𝛼 𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑇 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛
𝑃
where: