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equipartition

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equipartition [¦e·kwə·pär′tish·ən]
(chemistry)
The condition in a gas where under equal pressure the molecules of the gas maintain the same average distance between each other.
The equal distribution of a compound between two solvents.
The distribution of the atoms in an orderly fashion, such as in a crystal.


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Indeed, when non-local effects are important, the influence of the walls is expected to be felt at a considerable distance, and the fact that the mean-free path is long will imply that at each point there is a superposition of populations having different temperatures, thus breaking equipartition.
When he applied the principle of the equipartition of the created entropy [29] in the vicinity of equilibrium, Cunat [5] found that the weights [p.
F] values by ALLHKL so that we could conclude that the Le Bail method should be preferred but that behaviour may depend on the equipartition tendency of the Le Bail approach.
 
 
 
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