CONTENTS
Preface to the Third Edition = ⅴ
1 Introduction = 1
1.1 The liquid state = 1
2 The thermodynamic properties = 11
2.1 Summary of thermodynamic relations = 11
2.2 Vapour pressure = 19
2.3 Mechanical properties = 24
2.4 Heat capacities = 29
2.5 Adiabatic properties = 32
2.6 Residual and configurational properties = 47
2.7 van der Waals's equation = 51
3 The critical state = 59
3.1 Thermodynamics of the critical point = 59
3.2 Inequalities at the critical point = 65
3.3 The measurement of critical constants = 70
3.4 Experimental values of the critical exponents = 75
3.5 Scaling the free energy = 77
4 The thermodynamics of liquid mixtures = 86
4.1 Introduction = 86
4.2 Partial molar quantities = 87
4.3 The ideal mixture = 92
4.4 Thermodynamics of non-ideal mixtures = 98
4.5 Tests for consistency = 101
4.6 Azeotropy = 104
4.7 Fields and densities = 110
4.8 Thermodynamics of partially miscible liquids = 115
4.9 Exponents at the critical point of a binary mixture = 119
4.10 Tricritical points = 122
5 Excess thermodynamic functions = 132
5.1 Introduction = 132
5.2 The experimental determination of excess functions = 133
5.3 Mixtures of condensed gases = 140
5.4 Liquefied natural-gas mixtures = 145
5.5 Mixtures of the higher hydrocarbons = 149
5.6 Mixtures containing halides = 154
5.7 Mixtures containing fluorocarbons = ]58
5.8 Mixtures containing polar liquids = 62
5.9 Aqueous mixtures = 174
5.10 Mixtures of quantum liquids = 79
6 Fluid mixtures at high pressures = 191
6.1 Introduction = 91
6.2 Gas-liquid critical states of binary mixtures = ]95
6.3 High-pressure phase equilibria : type Ⅰ mixtures = 203
6.4 High-pressure phase equilibria : type Ⅱ and type Ⅵ mixtures = 207
6.5 High-pressure phase equilibria : type Ⅲ mixtures = 213
6.6 High-pressure phase equilibria : type Ⅳ and type Ⅴ mixtures = 221
7 The statistical thermodynamics of fluids = 230
7.1 Intermolecular forces = 230
7.2 Molecular distribution functions = 232
7.3 Molecular correlation functions = 237
7.4 The measurement and calculation of correlation functions = 243
7.5 The principle of corresponding states = 261
7.6 Perturbation theories : spherical molecules = 266
7.7 Perturbation theories : non-spherical molecules = 270
8 The statistical thermodynamics of mixtures = 279
8.1 Introduction = 279
8.2 Ideal and random mixtures = 279
8.3 Mixtures of spheres = 284
8.4 The van der Waals approximation = 286
8.5 Perturbation theories of mixtures of spherical molecules = 288
8.6 Excess functions of simple mixtures = 291
8.7 Mixtures of alkanes = 298
8.8 Perturbation theories of mixtures of non-spherical molecules = 300
8.9 Phase equilibria at high pressures = 303
8.10 Conclusions = 312
General index = 317
Index of systems = 323
