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BASED on measurements of liquid density and of heats of vaporization of the normal paraffin hydrocarbons, a very simple relationship has been deduced that appears to be of general applicability to this family of chemical compounds. The equation is as follows: where ρ is liquid density at the temperature of measurement1; ρc is critical density2; ρ0 is liquid density extrapolated to absolute zero3; (− E/V) is cohesive-energy density of the liquid at the temperature of measurement4; (− E/V)0 is cohesive-energy density of the liquid extrapolated to absolute zero; and α is a constant (= 0.00125 for the n-paraffins).
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DOOLITTLE, A. Liquid-State Equation for Normal Paraffins. Nature 174, 369 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174369b0
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