ideal gas law

Summary

ideal gas law is a gas law^[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of gas_law entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,477 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• ideal gas law's instance of is recorded as gas law^[3].
• ideal gas law's instance of is recorded as equation of state^[4].
• Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron is named after ideal gas law^[5].
• Dmitri Mendeleev is named after ideal gas law^[6].
• ideal gas law's Commons category is recorded as Ideal gas law^[7].
• ideal gas law's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[8].
• ideal gas law's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5^[9].
• ideal gas law's studied by is recorded as statistical mechanics^[10].
• ideal gas law's studied by is recorded as thermodynamics^[11].
• ideal gas law's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[12].
• ideal gas law's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[13].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include gas law^[3] and equation of state^[4].

Origins

Things named after include Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron^[5], a physicist^[14], 1799–1864^[15], of France^[16], awarded the Officer of the Legion of Honour^[17], specialised in thermodynamics^[18] and Dmitri Mendeleev^[6], a chemist^[19], 1834–1907^[20], of Russian Empire^[21], awarded the Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky^[22], specialised in chemistry^[23].

Why It Matters

ideal gas law ranks in the top 8% of gas_law entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,477 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[25]