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State and explain Gay Lussac's law.

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Gay-Lussac's law states that the pressure of a gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature provided mass & volume of gas is constant.

At constant volume, the pressure of the gas increases with increase in temperature and decreases with a decrease in temperature which is expressed as:

PαT -------- (at constant volume & mass)

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