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No, pressure is independent of temperature.

If you take a gas as an example: When you compress a gas, temperature increases, but you can cool it down again while maintaining pressure.

(And then when you release the pressure it gets even cooler, that’s how a fridge works.)



how do you cool a gas while increasing pressure? by PV=nRT you have to reduce volume linearly.


Yes, you reduce the volume.




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