NEET levelSingle correct optionDifficulty 1 of 3rg023
The Boyle temperature of a gas is the temperature at which
Athe gas liquefies on compression
Bthe gas obeys Boyle's law over an appreciable range of low pressures
Cthe compressibility factor is maximum
Dthe gas cannot be liquefied at any pressure
Answer: B
At the Boyle temperature the attractive and repulsive corrections cancel at low pressure, so Z stays close to 1 over a range of pressures and the gas follows PV= constant. It is given by TB=a/Rb for a van der Waals gas.