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The Pressure of Gaseous Mixtures

Nature volume 119, page 459 (1927)Cite this article

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A CURIOUS and somewhat unexpected property of the pressure of a gaseous mixture has come to my notice from an examination of some recent experimental work. Holborn and Otto (Zeit. f. Phys. 23, 77, 1924; and 33, 1, 1925) have determined the isotherms of a mixture of helium and neon, and of helium and neon alone, and have shown that the isotherms can in each case be represented with great accuracy by a formula of the type

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LENNARD-JONES, J. The Pressure of Gaseous Mixtures. Nature 119, 459 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119459a0

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