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Old 24-October-2007, 11:56 AM
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The thing about the ideal gas law is that it doesn't matter what kind of gases compose a given mixture--they all obey the same ideal gas law. As for magnetic fields, I'm proposing that the GRS is mainly composed of helium and molecular hydrogen--neutral molecules and atoms that aren't affected much by magnetic fields.
but you can only compare (1) and (2) if there have not been any phase transitions, which will change internal energy, entropy, enthalpy etc. I may be mistaken, but I do think that the perfect gas law only applies if those things are kept constant.

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Thanks for the link, but your post would be more useful if it included a username and password for ScienceDirect.
yeah, wouldn't we all wanna have a password for that.
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