Timeline for Why is volume of gas independent of its molecule size?
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| Apr 15, 2021 at 4:00 | vote | accept | Sid | ||
| Apr 14, 2021 at 17:46 | answer | added | Serge Hulne | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 17:03 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | This law is valid as long as the inequality: $a\ll l$ fulfils, where $a$ is the molecule size and $l$ is the inter-molecule average distance. | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 16:55 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 14:44 | comment | added | Sid |
Oh, I get it- the Wiki page says: The ideal gas law treats gas molecules as point particles that interact with their containers but not each other, that answers it. Thanks!
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| Apr 14, 2021 at 14:42 | comment | added | ytlu | That is for an ideal gas. There are some other models of state equations, which take your consideration into account, even though that is a very small factor, for example, the van der Waals equation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_equation | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 14:18 | history | asked | Sid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |