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  1. billdedman

    properties of air under pressure.... question

    If a volume of a gas (say, ambient atmospheric air) is reduced in a sealed container, to 1/2 of its original volume, doesn't it follow that the pressure would double? Is this phenomenon linear in nature, all the way up to say, a 10:1 reduction in volume? If it's NOT linear, why not? Would the...
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