Dühring's rule

Dühring's rule

[′dir·iŋz ‚rül]

(physical chemistry)

The rule that a plot of the temperature at which a liquid exerts a particular vapor pressure against the temperature at which a similar reference liquid exerts the same vapor pressure produces a straight or nearly straight line.

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