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According to the principles of Boyle's Law, a certain gas at 1.0 atm pressure is compressed to a smaller volume. What happened to the pressure as the gas was compressed?

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during compression, the volume (V) of a gas decreases. When this happens, the pressure (P) of the gas increases if the number of moles (n) of gas remains constant. If you keep the pressure constant, reducing the temperature (T) also causes the gas to compress.

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