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What does to squeeze a gas into a smaller space mean?

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You are allowing gas to travel anywhere it wants to
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Youre basically allowing the gas to have room to roam free in a large container. When you "squeeze" it into a smaller space, there is less room to move and thus the atoms bounce off of each other more often.
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