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  2. Ideal gas law - Wikipedia

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    Isotherms of an ideal gas for different temperatures. The curved lines are rectangular hyperbolae of the form y = a/x. They represent the relationship between pressure (on the vertical axis) and volume (on the horizontal axis) for an ideal gas at different temperatures: lines that are farther away from the origin (that is, lines that are nearer to the top right-hand corner of the diagram ...

  3. Gas laws - Wikipedia

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    The laws describing the behaviour of gases under fixed pressure, volume, amount of gas, and absolute temperature conditions are called gas laws.The basic gas laws were discovered by the end of the 18th century when scientists found out that relationships between pressure, volume and temperature of a sample of gas could be obtained which would hold to approximation for all gases.

  4. Kelvin - Wikipedia

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    According to SI convention, the kelvin is never referred to nor written as a degree. The word "kelvin" is not capitalized when used as a unit. It may be in plural form as appropriate (for example, "it is 283 kelvins outside", as for "it is 50 degrees Fahrenheit" and "10 degrees Celsius").

  5. Scale of temperature - Wikipedia

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    When pressure approaches zero, all real gas will behave like ideal gas, that is, pV of a mole of gas relying only on temperature. Therefore, we can design a scale with pV as its argument. Of course any bijective function will do, but for convenience's sake a linear function is the best.

  6. Kinetic theory of gases - Wikipedia

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    The kinetic theory of gases is a simple classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases. Its introduction allowed many principal concepts of thermodynamics to be established. It treats a gas as composed of numerous particles, too small to be seen with a microscope, in constant, random motion.

  7. Molar heat capacity - Wikipedia

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    The atom-molar heat capacity of a polyatomic gas approaches that of a solid as the number n of atoms per molecule increases. As in the case f gases, some of the vibration modes will be "frozen out" at low temperatures, especially in solids with light and tightly bound atoms, causing the atom-molar heat capacity to be less than this theoretical ...

  8. Inversion temperature - Wikipedia

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    So for >, an expansion at constant enthalpy increases temperature as the work done by the repulsive interactions of the gas is dominant, and so the change in kinetic energy is positive. But for T < T inv {\displaystyle T<T_{\text{inv}}} , expansion causes temperature to decrease because the work of attractive intermolecular forces dominates ...

  9. Orders of magnitude (energy) - Wikipedia

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    Estimated total energy (in shockwaves, turbulence, gases heating up, gravitational force) of galaxy clusters mergings [339] 4×10 58 J: Visible mass–energy in our galaxy, the Milky Way [340] [341] 10 59 1×10 59 J: Total mass–energy of our galaxy, the Milky Way, including dark matter and dark energy [342] [343] 1.4×10 59 J