perfect gas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect gas
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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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
It is in the fluid state, and perhaps in conditions opposed to those of a body in the state of a perfect gas.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
The relation between the temperature, pressure, and weight of steam is not quite proportional to the volume, because steam is not a perfect gas, and does not, therefore, strictly follow Mariotte’s law.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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
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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