van der Waals covolume
van der Waals covolume
[′van dər ‚wȯlz ¦kō′väl·yəm] (physical chemistry)
The constant b in the van der Waals equation, which is approximately four times the volume of an atom of the gas in question multiplied by Avogadro's number.
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