Diederik Korteweg, pioneer of criticality

Physics Today

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 47-53

  Sengers, Johanna Levelt ^a   Levelt, Antonius H M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; FREE ENERGY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; PHASE SEPARATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

FLUID MIXTURES;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 0036904749     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1537912     Document Type: Article

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