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Definition of Ideal gas

1. Noun. A hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces.

Definition of Ideal gas

1. Noun. (physics) a hypothetical gas, whose molecules exhibit no interaction, and undergo elastic collision with each other and with the walls of the container ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideal Gas

Literary usage of Ideal gas

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1. Elements of Heat-power Engineering by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld, William Nichols Barnard (1915)
"Irreversible Adiabatic Processes of ideal gas, and the Corresponding Entropy ... These are thermodynamic processes which ideal gas undergoes when confined ..."

2. Elements of Heat-power Engineering by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (1915)
"Irreversible Adiabatic Processes of ideal gas, and the Corresponding Entropy ... These are thermodynamic processes which ideal gas undergoes when confined ..."

3. Practical Pyrometry: The Theory, Calibration, and Use of Instruments for the by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Glenn Alfred Shook, Jacob Roland Collins (1920)
"This furnishes an "ideal gas" temperature scale. According to the ideal gas Temperature Scale, the ratio between two temperatures equals the ratio between ..."

4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1878)
"In the first place, if we consider the case of a gas-mixture which only (lifters from an ordinary ideal gas-mixture for which some of the components are ..."

5. General Physics and Its Application to Industry and Everyday Life by Ervin Sidney Ferry (1921)
"The ideal gas Temperature Scale.—The simplicity of the fundamental law of ideal gases is utilized in constructing a temperature scale in which the zero ..."

6. Text-book of Mechanics by Louis Adolphe Martin (1916)
"Neglect of this precaution will lead to serious errors in the use of entropy. Changes in the Entropy of an ideal gas during Reversible Processes. ..."

7. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTe (1992)
"The basic principles behind this method are the ideal gas laws, such as Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures, which states that the total pressure of a mixture ..."

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