PPT Slide
- High pressures: molecules are attracted by nearby molecules, lowering speeds and lessening force of its impact with the walls.
- Low temperature has the same effect because it slows the molecules and allows attractive forces to be more effective.
- Values of PV/RT greater than ideal (>1) are due predominantly to molecular volume.
- At normal pressures, the free volume is nearly equal to the container volume.
- As P increases, the free volume decreases, and the volume of the gas molecules takes up a greater proportion of the container volume.
- At high P, the free volume is smaller than the container volume (used as ìVî in PV/RT ratio). -The actual free volume is less, so the ratio is artificially high.
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