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perfect gas
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perfect gas
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(Chemistry) another name for ideal gas
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Noun1.perfect gas - a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
gas - a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely


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Sections on equilibrium statistical mechanics address general principles of many- particle systems, perfect gases and their properties, and quantum systems with strong interactions.
In this work, with use of the law of perfect gases, the external virtual work is expressed in terms of the enclosed volume integral and not of a surface integral [10].
Making short a long story : It so happens that the universal constant R present in the law of perfect gases pv = RT is figured by a medium sized number (T denotes the "absolute temperature," p and v the pressure and volume of a mole of gas).
 
 
 
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