Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 2010, 75, 359-369
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc2009510
Published online 2010-03-25 09:20:57

Critical consolute point in hard-sphere binary mixtures: Effect of the value of the eighth and higher virial coefficients on its location

Mariano López De Haroa, Anatol Malijevskýb,* and Stanislav Labíkb

a Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain
b Department of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague and Center for Biomolecules and Complex Molecular Systems, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic

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