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Definition of Kinetic theory of gases

1. Noun. (physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motion.

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Literary usage of Kinetic theory of gases

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1. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"The more fruitful applications of the theory of probability to natural processes has been in connection with the kinetic theory of gases and the " law ..."

2. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"Atomic Hypotheses—Solids—Liquids—Gases—Kinetic Theory of Gases—Mean Value of the Square of the Velocity of Translation V-—Mixture of Gases— ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"On some Difficulties connected with the Kinetic Theory of Gases. By GH BRYAN, Sc.D. The recent attacks of M. Bertrand on Maxwell's investigations emphasise ..."

4. A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present Day Being Also an by Ernst von Meyer (1906)
"This idea, in the hands of Kronig and more especially Clausius (in 1857), gave birth to the modern kinetic theory of gases, which was so splendidly worked ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"THE kinetic theory of gases AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES. " Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you ont of the crannies ; Hold you here, root and all, ..."

6. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer, Harold Govett Colman, Arthur Harden (1905)
"THE kinetic theory of gases. 41 The behaviour of substances in the gaseous state as regards pressure and temperature is distinguished by its simplicity and ..."

7. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis (1916)
"For further information the reader is referred to Meyer's Kinetic Theory of Gases, translated by Baynes; Jeans' Dynamical Theory of Gases; ..."

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