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What is the ratio of the volume of oxygen gas to the
volume of water vapor in the following reaction?

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Answer:

The ratio of volumes in the given case illustrates the Gay Lussac's Law of Gaseous Volumes.

- The law was given by the french chemist Gay Lussac in the year 1806.

- He stated that when gases are combined or are produced in a chemical reaction, they do so in a simple ratio by volume.

- It is given that 2 volumes of hydrogen combine with 1 volume of oxygen producing 2 volumes of water.

- This is in accordance with this law.

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