Boyle temperature

Boyle temperature

In thermodynamics, the Boyle temperature is defined as the temperature for which the second virial coefficient, B_{2}(T) vanishes, i.e. B_{2}(T)=0. Since higher order virial coefficients are generally much smaller than the second coefficient, the gas tends to behave as an ideal gas over a wider range of pressures when the temperature reaches the Boyle temperature. In any case, when the pressures are low, the second virial coefficient will be the only relevant one because the remaining concern terms of higher order on the pressure. We then have dZ/dp = 0 at p=0, where "Z" is the compression factor.

References

# P.W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry (Oxford University Press, 6^{th} edition) 1998


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