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The proof of a recently enunciated theorem on the occurrence of a gas-liquid phase transition is shown to be defective in several respects. Also, it is argued that the theorem itself very probably does not hold.
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The paper, “On the Gas-Liquid Phase Transition” by A. C. Biswas appeared inJournal of Statistical Physics 7:131 (1973).
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Groeneveld, J. Critique of the paper “on the gas-liquid phase transition”. J Stat Phys 9, 183–185 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01016846
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