On the universal behavior of some thermodynamic properties along the whole liquid-vapor coexistence curve.
When thermodynamic properties of a pure substance are transformed to reduced form by using both critical- and triple-point values, the corresponding experimental data along the whole liquid-vapor coexistence curve can be correlated with a very simple analytical expression that interpolates between the behavior near the triple and the critical points. The leading terms of this expression contain only two parameters: the critical exponent and the slope at the triple point. For a given thermodynamic property, the critical exponent has a universal character but the slope at the triple point can vary significantly from one substance to another. However, for certain thermodynamic properties including the difference of coexisting densities, the enthalpy of vaporization, and the surface tension of the saturated liquid, one finds that the slope at the triple point also has a nearly universal value for a wide class of fluids. These thermodynamic properties thus show a corresponding apparently universal behavior along the whole coexistence curve.
Román
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Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain. romanh@usal.es
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Velasco
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