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This last article of a three-part series describes how to use syringes, pressure gauges and Mason jars to do the gas laws: Boyle’s Law (pV), Gay-Lussac’s Law (pT) and Avogadro’s Experiment (pn). The huge advantage of using a Mason jar for the pressure vs amount relationship is that the stopper and ring combination produce a sealed container that can withstand a pressure inside of 2 atm without fear of the stopper popping or the glass breaking.

This second article in a three-part series on gas laws describes how to use a Mason jar to collect data and demonstrate the pressure-temperature relationship, Gay-Lussac’s law. Its huge advantage is that the gas temperature is measured, NOT the temperature of the water bath.

This three-part series will describe how to use syringes, pressure gauges and mason jars to study gas laws — Boyle’s law, Gay-Lussac’s law and Avogadro’s law. Most likely you did not learn the properties of gases using mason jars, syringes and pressure gauges.