Gas Laws
The early gas laws were developed at the end of the 18th century, when scientists began to realize that relationships between the pressure, volume and temperature of a sample of gas could be obtained which would hold for all gases. Gases behave in a similar way over a wide variety of conditions because to a good approximation they all have molecules which are widely spaced, and nowadays 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 of the variables held constant.
Read more about Gas Laws: Boyle's Law, Charles's Law, Gay-Lussac's Law, Avogadro's Law, Combined and Ideal Gas Laws, Other Gas Laws
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