Ideal gas law
Ecuación de estado de los gases ideales (PV = nRT)
- Date
- 1834 · confidence high
- Place
- École Polytechnique, Paris
- Credited to
- Émile Clapeyron (combining Boyle, Charles and Gay-Lussac); molar form with the constant R (Mendeleev, 1874)
- People
- 👤 Émile Clapeyron1799–1864
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Clapeyron combines Boyle's, Charles's and Gay-Lussac's laws into a single equation of state, later expressed in terms of the number of moles with the universal constant R. It is the reference model against which real gases are measured (van der Waals, 1873).
What it led to
- Kinetic theory of gases
- Van der Waals equation
- Chemical engineering of gases
Built on
Made possible
- Redlich–Kwong equation of state1949
- heat engine calculation
- liquefaction of gases