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The ideal gas law is considered to be different from other equations of state for one or more of the following reasons:

It cannot predict phase changes - in the ideal gas law, everything is a gas and stays a gas no matter what the temperature and pressure

It does not take into account repulsion and attraction between molecules

It does not take into account that actual atoms occupy volume - the ideal gas law essentially assumes point masses.

It does not take into account the effect of orientation of polarized molecules - thus it is possible to get states in the real world that would be defined mathematically as "negative entropy" according to the ideal gas law.

Example: as a thought experiment, a polar substance is cooled to absolute zero. At absolute zero it is now in a perfect crystalline state of zero entropy. At zero kelvin the system must be in a state with the minimum possible energy, and this statement of the third law holds true if the perfect crystal has only one minimum energy state. Entropy is related to the number of possible microstates, and with only one microstate available at zero kelvin, the entropy is exactly zero. If a magnetic field were now imposed, the substance would orient to an even more ordered state - a decrease in entropy below zero. (Since an ideal gas does not care about external magnetic fields, the system would be at zero entropy before the field was imposed).

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