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Gases can't be stored in open containers because the gas will escape into the atmosphere. Gases have the tendency to occupy all the space that is available to them. If I have to explain it i would tell you to imagine molecules as small children who love huge spaces so that they can run around, gas molecules are exactly that.

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Because from an open container a gas diffuse in the atmosphere.

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Gases are made up mostly of space between the gas molecules, so they can take the shape and fill the volume of whatever container they are placed into.

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they are kept in closed containers so that bugs cannot get to them and get stuck or die

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Gases are very easily compressible because their particles are spaced widely. Solids can be compressed with high-powered equipment, and liquids can't be compressed at all.

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