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Ideal Gas Assumptions

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The ideal gas law assumes gas particles have zero volume and exert no forces on each other.

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Two ideal-gas particles could occupy the same point in space and pass through each other with no force between them.

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Real gas particles have volume and do attract each other — Chem 1330 shows where these assumptions break down.