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Asterion Talks on Instagram: "This classroom demonstration uses a pumpkin as a pressure vessel to visually explain gas laws and energy transfer. When a chemical reaction or phase change inside the pumpkin rapidly generates gas, the number of gas molecules increases while the rigid shell limits volume expansion. According to Boyle’s Law and the Ideal Gas Law, this causes internal pressure to rise sharply. As temperature increases or gas production accelerates, molecular collisions with the pumpki
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