Gay-Lussac’s Law

Gay-Lussac's Law Gay-Lussac's Law which is most often referred to as the Pressure law, was founded by a French Chemist & Professor Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1809. Gay-Lussac's Law has also been referred to as Charle's Law, but they are not the same. Gay- Lussacs Law gives the relationship between pressure and temperature when volume and amount are held constant. Gay-Lussac found that for a gas, if the pressure increases, the temperature increases, and if the temperature decreases, the pressure decreases. Based on this Gay-Lussac...

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Henry's Law

Henry's Law Henry's Law is one of the Gas Laws formulated by a British Chemist William Henry in 1803. It states that " At a constant Temperature the solubility of a Gas in a Liquid (unless it is highly soluble) is DIRECTLY proportional to the Partial Pressure applied to the Gas ". Mathematically Henry's Law can be stated as :- p = kH x c Where, p is the partial pressure of the solute in the gas above the solution, c is the concentration of the solute, kH is a constant known as the Henry's Law constant with the dimensions...

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Charle's Law

Charle's Law Charles' Law describes "How Gases tend to expand when heated" and gives the direct relationship of Temperature and Volume of a gas. Charle's Law states that " At a constant Pressure, the Volume of a confined gas is DIRECTLY Proportional to the Absolute Temperature " i.e ,V α T , thus if the Temperature of a gas is Doubled, it's Volume is also Doubled. In a Simple one statement Charle's Law can be stated as " As the Temperature Increases the Gas Expands " This occurs because as the temperature increases,the Gas molecules...

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Boyle's Law or Mariotte's Law or Boyle-Mariotte Law

Boyle's Law Boyle's Law states that " At a constant Temperature, the Volume of a confined gas ( gas restricted to certain limits,for eg., gas in a closed system ) is INVERSELY proportional to the Pressure to which it is subjected ". The Law was named after a Chemist and Physicist Robert Boyle , who published the Law in 1662. Robert Boyle studied the Compressibility of Gases in 1660. In his Experiments he observed that "At a fixed Temperature, the Volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the Pressure exerted by the gas." For Eg...

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Avogadro's Law & Avogadro's Number

Avogadro's Law Avogadro's law is a Gas Law which states that " Equal Volumes of Gases under the same Temperature and Pressure conditions will contain equal number of particles (atoms, ion, molecules, electrons, etc.) regardless of their Chemical nature and Physical properties " . The law is named after an Italian Chemist Amedeo Avogadro who, in 1811, analysed that the two given samples of an ideal gas , of the same Volume and at the same Temperature and Pressure , contains the same number of molecules . Mathematically the law can...

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