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Kinetic Theory of Gases
Accepted · 1857
- Status
- Accepted
- Year
- 1857
Summary
Pressure and temperature as bookkeeping for molecules in flight. It derived the gas laws from mechanics and statistics alone, and gave the first real evidence that molecules were more than a convenient fiction.
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