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knudsen gas

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables
knud-sen -gas
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A gas in a state of such low density that the average distance travelled by the its molecules between collisions (mean free path) is greater than the diameter of the receptacle that contains it.

Etymology

Named after Danish physicist Martin Knudsen.

Inflected Forms

Knudsen gases (plural)

Questions

What does knudsen gas mean?
A gas in a state of such low density that the average distance travelled by the its molecules between collisions (mean free path) is greater than the diameter of the receptacle that contains it.
Where does knudsen gas come from?
Named after Danish physicist Martin Knudsen.

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