COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES AT HIGH TEMPERATURES: IX. SECOND VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS AND THE INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIAL OF NEON

Abstract

The second virial coefficients of neon have been determined in the temperature range 0° to 700 °C. and the pressure range 10 to 80 atmospheres. These data were combined with published low temperature (−150° to 0 °C.) second virial data, to investigate the intermolecular potentials of neon using both a Lennard-Jones potential, with a 9th and 12th power repulsion term, and also a modified Buckingham exponential–six potential. The agreement between observed and calculated values of B(T) was excellent for both the exponential–six and the Lennard-Jones 12:6 potentials and slightly less satisfactory for the Lennard-Jones 9:6 potential.