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Under what conditions may a real gas exhibit ideal behavior?
That makes sense. How is ideal gas behavior different from real gas behavior?
Ideal gases follow the ideal gas law, which states that PV=nRT where P is pressure, V is volume, n is the number of moles, R is the universal gas constant, and T is temperature. Ideal gas molecules do not have any volume and there are no intermolecular forces between them. In reality, gas molecules do have volume and indeed have intermolecular forces between them, which causes real gases to not behave exactly as ideal gases.