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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is Ideal about the ideal gas?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

An ideal gas is a theoretical gas composed of a set of randomly-moving, non-interacting point particles. It's one of the most important models in statistical mechanics and is very useful, cause it obeys the "ideal gas law" \[pV = NkT\] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law

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