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to measure the volume of A gas you can take a container and weigh the container and say the container is 1.2 pounds . You then put the gas in the container and subtract the 1.2 pounds

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The answer above is a shaky protocol at best for measuring the weight of the gas,

and doesn't address the volume of the gas at all.

The reason it's shaky is because it ignores the presence of air inside the container

during the preliminary weighing of the container, treating the container as if it's

completely empty.

The question asked how to measure the volume of a gas. After all this rigamarole,

the answer is easy: The volume of a gas is the volume of the container it's in.

Gas always expands to fill all the space you give it and exert pressure on the

boundaries in search of more space. Take a gas out of a small container and

put it in a larger one, and it'll happily expand to fill the larger one.

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