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virial coefficients [′vir·ē·əl ‚kō·i′fish·əns]

(thermodynamics)

For a given temperatureT, one of the coefficients in the expansion ofP/RTin inverse powers of the molar volume, wherePis the pressure andRis the gas constant.

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