perfect gas

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   a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces

   Synonymsideal gas

   Broadergas

Questions about perfect gas

What does perfect gas mean?

perfect gas means "a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces".

What is another word for perfect gas?

Close synonyms include ideal gas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perfect gas a common word?

perfect gas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.