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combined gas law

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

A rule that relates the pressure, volume and temperature of a fixed amount of gas as any of the three change together.

"The combined gas law let the divers predict how the volume of gas in their tanks would change with depth and temperature."

It merges Boyle's law, Charles's law and the pressure law into a single equation.