perfect gas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect gas
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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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 David Peck Todd
The analogy with a perfect gas naturally becomes much greater as the solution becomes more diluted.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
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
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 Lucien Poincaré
When a perfect gas dilates in a vacuum its entropy increases, and yet the temperature does not change, and the gas has neither been able to give nor receive heat.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
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