Can the water vapor in air be treated as an ideal gas?

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Can the water vapor in air be treated as an ideal gas? Explain.

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Problem 3P

Can the water vapor in air be treated as an ideal gas? Explain.

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A composition of numerous moving identical particles that obeys the ideal gas law is known as an ideal gas.

The interactions of ideal gases are flawlessly elastic collisions. The volume occupied by the particles of an ideal gas is negligible than the volume occupied by the gas. The ideal gas has very low partial pressure.

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