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What type of substances allows the use of the Ideal Gas Law? Wikipedia: Saturated fluid cites Çengel and Boles. Also, just about every steam table calculator I've run across lists boiling-point properties as saturation properties: example. |
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What type of substances allows the use of the Ideal Gas Law? The ideal gas law is an equation of state, and some equations of state apply for liquids as well as gases. Besides, strictly speaking, "ideal gas law" wouldn't even suggest that the law could be used for vapors – but it works well for vapors when $P_r<<1$. And a saturated liquid is just a liquid at a temperature where it can boil. There is very little volume change associated with saturated liquid versus subcooled liquid, so the ideal gas law fails equally badly in either case – even though it works better for superheated vapors than for saturated vapors. |
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What happens to temperature when pressure is constant in a cylindrical piston of saturated liquid ammonia? Yes, it's in the two-phase region because there are two phases in equilibrium. That means each phase has its own equation of state – or its own unique solution to a single gas-liquid equation of state. It doesn't matter whether this happens above or below $P_c$ – but it cannot happen above $T_c$, because then a liquid cannot form. |
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