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An ideal gas is an abstraction - a simplification. No real gas behaves exactly like an "ideal gas". The reason an ideal gas is used is because (a) the math is simpler, and (b) this is close enough for real gases, in many cases.

Thought this is often not stated explicitly, we can safely assume that an "ideal gas" is supposed to remain a gas, regardless of the temperature and pressure.

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