Open AccessThe critical constants and orthobaric densities of xenon
Publication year - 1912
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1912.0050
Subject(s) - xenon , krypton , neon , argon , atomic physics , volume (thermodynamics) , table (database) , constant (computer programming) , boiling point , chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , computer science , data mining , programming language
Rudorf, in a paper on the rare gases and the equation of state, has drawn attention to the high value found by Ramsay and Travers for the density of liquid xenon at its boiling point. As is well known the atomic volume in any group of elements in the periodic table either increases regularly with rise of atomic weight or remains approximately constant, so that it is to be expected that the atomic volume of xenon would be greater than of krypton, since the value for krypton exceeds that of argon. If Rudorf's calculated value for the density of neon is taken into account, this anomaly becomes more striking, as is shown from the following table taken from his paper:-