perfect gas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect gas
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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In an elastic wave propagated from a centre of impulse in an infinitely extended volume of a perfect gas, normal vibrations are alone propagated—as is the case with sound in air.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi
The process of shrinkage and rise of temperature goes on so long as they remain in the state of a perfect gas.
From The New Heavens by Hale, George Ellery
The analogy with a perfect gas naturally becomes much greater as the solution becomes more diluted.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
This expansion, nevertheless, causes a fall in the temperature, because the gas in the experiment is not a perfect gas, and, by an ingenious process, the refrigerations produced are made cumulative.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
Contracting, according to Lane's law, its temperature must rise until its density becomes such that it no longer behaves as a perfect gas.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
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