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Besides getting squeezed together, what happens to the air molecules when you push down on a piston?

Did you think of anything? 

Click here for an animation that might give you some new ideas.

 

 

Before going on to the next section - write down what you observed in the animation.  Also, write down any new ideas you might have about what happens to the gas molecules when you push down on a piston.