Criticality in the hard-sphere ionic fluid

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 164-220

  Levin, Yan ^a,b   Fisher, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(95)00336-3     Document Type: Article

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126. c ≃ 0.0715 and 0.0635, respectively. Another approach due to
127. c ≃ 0.0715 and 0.0635, respectively. Another approach due to
128. c = 0.052-0.056 [see Eq. (3.5)].