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critical constants

British

plural noun

the physical constants that express the properties of a substance in its critical state See critical pressure critical temperature

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The three critical constants may be determined, as Mr S. Young and M. Amagat have shown, by a direct method based on the consideration of the saturated states.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

The daily more numerous applications of the laws of corresponding states have rendered highly important the determination of the critical constants which permit these states to be defined.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

Obviously, therefore, liquids are comparable when the pressures, volumes and temperatures are equal fractions of the critical constants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

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