Laboring in the vineyard of physical chemistry

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-18

  Widom, Benjamin ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical kinetics; critical points; interfaces; theory of liquids

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CRITICAL POINT; DEFAULT SETTING; GRADUATE SCHOOLS; THEORY OF LIQUIDS;

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79953765835     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032210-103501     Document Type: Article

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