Why do gases deviate from ideal behavior at high pressure?
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The causes of deviations from ideal behaviour may be due to the following two assumptions of kinetic theory of gases. The volume occupied by gas molecules is negligibly small as compared to the volume occupied by the gas. The forces of attraction between gas molecules are negligible.
Real gases deviate from ideal behaviour because their particles (atoms for inert gases or molecules) occupy some finite space and do exert interactive forces among them. Completely ideal behaviour is hypothetical because of the reasons above. At low pressure and high temperature, real gases behave approximately as ideal gases. In ideal behaviour, gas particles don't occupy space and do not have any interaction, as assumed in the kinetic theory of gases. But in reality this is not the case: we get errors by applying the ideal gas law. That's why van der Waals corrected it by introducing suitable constants.