The ABC's of gas: Avogadro, Boyle, Charles - Brian Bennett
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How can bottles and balloons help explain the different laws that govern gas? See how Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, and Avogadro’s Law help us understand the laws that govern gas properties.
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Believe it or not, Avogadro had two major contributions to chemistry, both of them based on his work with gases. You’ve heard about him in this video, with Avogadro’s Law, but he also was one of the first to propose that we could count the atoms in containers of gas. Check out Daniel Dulek’s video on Avogadro’s number. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/daniel-dulek-how-big-is-a-mole-not-the-animal-the-other-one
Check your understanding of the empirical gas laws using this quick quiz: http://ths.sps.lane.edu/chemweb/unit4/problems/gaslaws/
Davidson University has a great collection of virtual chemistry resources. Here is a series of virtual experiments that will let you test each of the empirical gas laws as well as the Ideal Gas Law that is derived from these three. http://www.chm.davidson.edu/vce/gaslaws/index.html
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