Posted by werwer on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 3:13pm.
One of the assumptions made in the Kinetic Molecular Theory is that the molecules have zero volume. Neglecting the volume term (and it is small) allows to to work with a much simpler equation in the general gas law of PV = nRT. There are other assumptions, too. You can read more about it here.
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/vce/kineticmoleculartheory/basicconcepts.html
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