Ideal gases are boring. By definition, they don't do anything. They
don't interact (even the picture of molecules bouncing off of each other
in the balloon is nonideal), they don't do any chemical reactions, they
just bounce around inside of a container. Boring. What makes chemistry an
interesting subject are the interactions between molecules and the reactions
that molecules undergo. In fact, much of the rest of thermodynamics is just
inventive ways of adding interactions and chemical reactions into the ideal
gas picture. Look at the components in the gas on the left and explore the
ways in which gases can depart from ideality.