perfect gas
Origin of perfect gas
1First recorded in 1840–50
Words Nearby perfect gas
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How to use perfect gas in a sentence
The woman had been set free--volatilized like Clerk Maxwell's perfect gas; almost brought to the point of explosion, like steam.
The Education of Henry Adams | Henry AdamsBut steam is not a perfect gas, as is evidenced by the fact that its volume does not increase in a ratio inverse to its pressure.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II | Joshua RoseFor lack of material he could not give his men perfect gas protectors, while to our men we could and did.
G. H. Q. | Frank Fox
British Dictionary definitions for perfect gas
perfect gas
noun
another name for ideal gas
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