Vw Van der Waals volume

The concept of free volume varies on how it is defined and used, but is generally acknowledged to be related to the degree of thermal expansion of the molecules. When liquids with different free volumes are mixed, that difference contributes to the excess functions (Prausnitz et al., 1986). The definition of free volume used by Bondi (1968) is the difference between the hard sphere or hard core volume of the molecule (Vw= van der Waals volume) and the molar volume, V ... 

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