What is the Ideal Gas Law?

PV equals nRT

The Ideal Gas Law is the chemistry law that combines the other gas laws (Charles's Law and Boyle's Law).

Symbolically it is: PV = nRT.

Where:

-- P is the pressure of the gas (in atmospheres, atm)

-- V is the volume of the container (in liters, L)

-- n is the number of moles of gas in the container (in moles)

-- R is universal gas constant (which is 0.0820574587 L · atm · K^-1 · mol^-1)

-- T is the temperature of the gas (in Kelvin)

See the Web Links for more information about the Ideal Gas Law, as well as Charles's Law and Boyle's Law.

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