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The Ideal Gas Law is that states that there is a relationship between the pressure multiplied by the volume being equal to the number of moles multiplied by the ideal gas constant multiplied by its temperature. The Formula for this law is as follows:

PV=nRT

This is a picture of Emil Clapeyron who, in 1834, was the first person to write this law.

With the Ideal Gas Law, there comes five certain charcteristics (known as the Kinetic Theory) that are what classify a gas as an Ideal one. 1) Gases are made in constant, random molecular motion. 2) The large portion of the volume a gas posseses is empty space. 3) There are no forces of Attraction/ or Repulsion between the molecules. 4) There is no net-loss of energy in the collisions between molecules, they are elastic collisions. 5) The temperature of the gas is dependent upon the Kinetic Energy of the molecules.

Gas Law Teaching Wiki- M. Killeen