11th Edition

ISBN: 9780077862626

Author: Bill Tillery, Stephanie J. Slater, Timothy F. Slater

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Ideal gas law states that the product of pressure and volume of a gas directly varies with the product of the number of moles, the universal gas constant, and the temperature of the gas.

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Chapter 22, Problem 1PEB

On the scale of a basketball, how thick, in cm, is a layer that represents 99 percent of the mass of Earth's atmosphere? (The diameter of a basketball is 23.9 cm.)

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