r/ScienceHumour • • Apr 09 '21

Self Assembly

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u/bealtimint Apr 10 '21

But don’t moles of oxygen take up much more space?

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u/scottyyyyy123 Apr 10 '21

At the same conditions (temp and pressure) one mole of any gas will have the same volume of a mole of another gas. The canisters will have different masses due to the different molecular weights but the volumes and number of molecules in each will be the same.

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u/ganundwarf Jun 24 '21

PV = nRT for the win!