perfect gas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect gas
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Assuming the working fluid to be a perfect gas with the same properties as air, we should have γ = 1.41.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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
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
The usual manner of testing the expansion curve of a diagram is to compare it with a curve representing Mariotte’s law for the expansion of a perfect gas.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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
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