Why Gay lussac's law is only obeyed by the gases
Why Gay lussac's law is only obeyed by the gases
Gay Lussac’s law states that- gases react in volumes which bears simple whole number ratio to one another and to the volumes of products, if gaseous, at constant pressure and temperature.
Gay Lussac’s law of combining volumes is one of the gas laws ( remember ideal gas equation, charles and boyle’s law??) so it is appliable to only gas molecules and not others. why???
As molecules of a gas are freely seperated, they are not rigidly packed so do they show definite variations with temperature, pressure and volume, these properties of gases are the reasons they follow a set of gas laws.
John Dalton proved by his atomic thory of matter that, atoms combine in definite ratios. Later it was experimentally proved that same volume of gasses have same number of molecules at STP.
The gay lussacs law functions because one mole of ANY ideal gas is supposed to be 22.4L at STP. Because this varies directly with temperature (and inversely with pressure), but works the same for all gases, the ratios of the amount of moles of gases to one another should remain factors and multiples of one another. hence it only works if reactants and products are all gaseous, as the above mentioned properties are not fulfilled by solids or liquids.
Gay Lussac’s law states that- gases react in volumes which bears simple whole number ratio to one another and to the volumes of products, if gaseous, at constant pressure and temperature.
Gay Lussac’s law of combining volumes is one of the gas laws ( remember ideal gas equation, charles and boyle’s law??) so it is appliable to only gas molecules and not others. why???
As molecules of a gas are freely seperated, they are not rigidly packed so do they show definite variations with temperature, pressure and volume, these properties of gases are the reasons they follow a set of gas laws.
John Dalton proved by his atomic thory of matter that, atoms combine in definite ratios. Later it was experimentally proved that same volume of gasses have same number of molecules at STP.
The gay lussacs law functions because one mole of ANY ideal gas is supposed to be 22.4L at STP. Because this varies directly with temperature (and inversely with pressure), but works the same for all gases, the ratios of the amount of moles of gases to one another should remain factors and multiples of one another. hence it only works if reactants and products are all gaseous, as the above mentioned properties are not fulfilled by solids or liquids.
