Virial coefficient isotope effect

Non-ideal Gases Virial Coefficient Isotope Effects... 

Rationalization of virial coefficient isotope effects follows similarly to that for the VPIE. In classical statistical thermodynamics the virial coefficient is given by,... 

A more careful analysis taking into account vapor nonideality through the second virial coefficient and the isotope effect on condensed phase molar volume yields Equation 5.16... 

An important attribute of Equation 5.16 is that the pressure exerted on both phases, Ptot, is common to both isotopomers. The important difference between Equations 5.16 and 5.9 is that the isotopic vapor pressure difference (P/ — P) does not enter the last two terms of Equation 5.16 as it does in Equation 5.9. Also isotope effects on the second virial coefficient AB/B = (B — B)/B and the condensed phase molar volume AV/V are significantly smaller than those on AP/P ln(P7P). Consequently the corrections in Equation 5.16 are considerably smaller than those in Equations 5.9 and 5.10, and can sooner be neglected. Thus to good approximation ln(a") is a direct measure of the logarithmic partition function ratio ln(Qv Q7QvQcO> provided the pressure is not too high, and assuming ideality for the condensed phase isotopomer solution. For nonideal solutions a modification to Equation 5.16 is necessary. 

Van Hook, W. A. and Wolfsberg, M., Comments on H/D isotope effects on polarizabilities. Correlation with virial coefficient, molar volume and electronic second moment isotope effects. Z Naturforsch. 49A, 563 (1994)... 

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