MY DEAR PROF. TAIT,—I gather from your letter of September 28 (NATURE, October 8, p. 546) that you admit the correctness of Van der Waals's deduction from the virial equation (1) when the particles ...

MY DEAR LORD RAYLEIGH,—From the heading of your first letter, and from the wide scope of the passage you quoted from my paper, I imagined that yot intended to raise the whole question of Van der Waals ...

The van der Waals equation of state is based on a simple, but realistic, physical model and therefore always yields physically meaningful results. Its quantitative deficiencies are due to the ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...

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