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MY DEAR PROF. TAIT,—I gather from your letter of September 28 (NATURE, October 8, p. 546) that you admit the correctness of Van der Waals's deduction from the virial equation (1) when the particles are infinitely small, in which case
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RAYLEIGH On Van Der Waals's Treatment of Laplace's Pressure in the Virial Equation: A Letter to Prof. Tait. Nature 44, 597 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044597a0
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