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The beautiful results which the founders of the kinetic theory of gases were able to attain by regarding gas molecules simply as rigid elastic spheres have been considerably refined in several directions by theorists who have imagined a gas molecule which exerts a weak attractive force on its fellows. This concept of attracting molecules lies at the basis of van der Waals’ pioneer work on the equation of state, and enabled Sutherland to give a theoretical basis to his remarkably accurate equation for the variation of the coefficient of viscosity with the temperature.
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Condon, E.U., Van Amringe, E.V. (1991). Mean Free Paths in a Gas Whose Molecules are Attracting Rigid Elastic Spheres. In: Barut, A.O., Odabasi, H., van der Merwe, A. (eds) Selected Scientific Papers of E.U. Condon. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9083-1_2
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