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DURING the past thirty-two years, Prof. Leduc has conducted extensive researches on the physical properties of gases, based on experiments of a high order of exactitude. These researches are contained in memoirs published in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique and in the Journal de Physique. The present publication is a brief summary of the main results, and deals with such topics as atomic weights, dissociation, internal pressure, the velocity of sound in mixtures of gases and vapours, specific heats, etc. The calculations are based on a modified form of Boyle's Law, and on a form of the reduced equation of state of a gas slightly different from that of Van der Waals and also from the more complicated form of Clausius. The author uses the “principle of corresponding states “enunciated by him self in 1892, namely, that “in corresponding states, the relative molecular volumes of all gases are. equal “: the relative molecular volume is the quantity Mw/RT, where M is the mass of gas having pressure p and volume v at absolute temperature T, and R is the usual universal constant.
Volumes moléculaires: Applications.
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Par. Pp. 120. (Paris: Gaston Doin, 1923.) 8 francs.
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B., S. Volumes moléculaires: Applications. Nature 113, 383 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113383b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113383b0