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Noun: ideal gas  I'dee-ul gas
  1. A hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
    "The behaviour of real gases approaches that of an ideal gas at high temperatures and low pressures";
    - perfect gas

Derived forms: ideal gases

Type of: gas

Encyclopedia: Ideal gas