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AS level Chemitsry

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It is one of the simple topic, Examiner Only focus about ideal and real behavior of gases. Just 2 assumptions of kinetic theory are most important, anyhow, i have notes but bad luck my scanner is not working, about any serious issue, u can discuss, i ll try to explain.
 
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Can you please explain to the behaviour of ideal and non-ideal gases, with examples and numericals related to ideal gases?
 
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An ideal gas is one that behaves all the postulates of Kinetic theory of gases .e.g. elastic collisions, negligible forces and negligible volume. It obeys the ideal gas equation , PV = nRT

A non-ideal gas or a real gas does not obey the ideal gas equation or postulates of the kinetic theory of gases. A real gas has forces existing between its molecules/ atoms. And collisions are not perfectly elastic, Ke before collision is not equal to Ke after collision.

A real gas can be made ideal at high temperature and low pressure. Both conditions result in negligible forces of attraction b/w gas particals + negligible volume of gas particles as compared to the volume of vessel.

Increase in relative molecular/atomic mass of the gas changes a gas from ideal to a non-ideal one. Since, increase in Mr or Ar results in increased van der Waal forces, so increasing the attraction b/w gas particles thereby nullifying one of the postulates of the Kinetic theory of gases.

Hope that's enough :)
 
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