Why does a balloon of 2*L volume contain TWICE as many gaseous particles as a balloon of 1*L volume under equivalent conditions of pressure and temperature?

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anor277
Apr 21, 2017

Would you not expect this outcome?

Explanation:

And this relationship was experimentally confirmed by Amadeo Avogadro. The volume occupied by a gas is directly proportional to the number of gaseous molecules present in the container:

V_1/n_1=V_2/n_2, where n is the number of gaseous particles.

Historically, this gas law was important because it led to the idea of molar equivalence, and "Avogadro's number."

Certainly, this is the behaviour we observe when we blow up a balloon.

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