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Last time we talked about the gas laws mainly, and I realize that this is not exactly a pageturner of a topic, but is important for two reasons: to have a basic familiarity with how gases behave, and to show that these concepts were worked out, in some cases, over two centuries [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com
Gases, like liquids are fluids, in that they have no definite shape, but take that shape of their container, be it a balloon, a pressure cylinder, or a gravity envelope. Unlike liquids, gases are not “condensed” in that their molecules have a much greater spacing than that of liquids or solids.
This spacing [...]