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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

What is virial equation of state?express van der Waals’ equation in the form of virial equation in the power series of 1/Vm.

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The virial equation of state is used to describe the behavior of diluted gases. It is usually written as an expansion of the compressibility factor  Z , in terms of either the density or the pressure. Such an expansion was first introduced in 1885 by Thiesen