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Which characteristic allows a gas to be compressed​

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"Gases are compressible because most of the volume of a gas is composed of the large amounts of empty space between the gas particles. At room temperature and standard pressure, the average distance between gas molecules is about ten times the diameter of the molecules themselves."

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Found information on Compressibility | CK-12 Foundation website

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