gas laws: Quick Facts

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Diagram illustrating Boyle's law with two pistons: on the left, higher volume and lower pressure; on the right, the plunger is pushed down, decreasing volume and increasing pressure, while temperature remains constant.

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ideal gas law Avogadro’s law Gay-Lussac’s law of combining volumes Boyle’s law Charles’s law Dalton’s law equation of state Avogadro’s number universal gas constant gas kinetic theory of gases Joule-Thomson effect syngas ideal gas degenerate gas monatomic gas

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William Prout

British chemist