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ISBN: 9781305079137

Author: James Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson, Charles A. Higgins, Omar Torres

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Ideal gas law states that the product of pressure and volume of a gas directly varies with the product of the number of moles, the universal gas constant, and the temperature of the gas.

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Chapter 20, Problem 2E

What would be the classifications of the air masses that form over the following source regions?

(a) Sahara Desert
(b) Antarctic Ocean
(c) Greenland
(d) mid-Pacific Ocean
(e) Siberia

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