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Kinetic Theory of Gases

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The kinetic theory of gases is a classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases that treats a gas as composed of numerous particles in constant, random motion, and whose introduction allowed many principal concepts of thermodynamics to be established.

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Proposed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1738 1
Proposed BySourced to the subject's own account
Daniel Bernoulli 1
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  • Lead section (entity-description)
    The kinetic theory of gases is a simple classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases. Its introduction allowed many principal concepts of thermodynamics to be established. It treats a gas as composed of numerous particles, too small to be seen with a microscope, in constant, random motion.
  • Kinetic theory of gases section, sentence 1 (year)
    In 1738 Daniel Bernoulli published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of gases
  • Kinetic theory of gases section, sentence 1 (proposer)
    In 1738 Daniel Bernoulli published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of gases
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