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Squeezing trapped gas abruptly spikes its internal pressure

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If you severely shrink the available volume of a sealed gas, you are forcefully packing the same chaotic molecules into a tragically small space. They start frantically smashing into the tighter walls at a dramatically higher rate, causing the internal pressure to violently spike upward in protest.

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