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If the volume of a gas decreases, what happens to the pressure?

If the volume of a gas increases, what happens to the pressure?

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Boyle's law. If the gas volume is decreased, the container wall area decreases and the molecule-wall collision frequency increases, both of which increase the pressure exerted by the gas (Figure 1).

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