Timeline for Why does a critical point exist?
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| Jul 20, 2016 at 19:21 | comment | added | Daniel Duque | Yes, sorry, by Widom I meant mostly "Molecular theory of capillarity", a very good book. store.doverpublications.com/0486425444.html . There's also amazon.es/Statistical-Mechanics-Concise-Introduction-Chemists/… , a great book imho. | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 10:00 | comment | added | Mark K Cowan | @Phiteros stat. mech. guy from ~1950s I think, he wrote a few books and papers which are were quite hard to track down during my BSc... | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | xaxa | I can't agree with the second point Therefore, if one exists at low temperatures, it must end does not seem to be obvious for the reasons pointed by @knzhou I'd also add that it's not clear to me why a sharp transition should exist in the first place (even at low temps), why not a smooth change? | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 16:06 | comment | added | knzhou | Even less intuitively, there exists a temperature (the critical temperature) where liquid-gas phase transitions suddenly go from possible to impossible. But what's special about that temperature? | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 16:05 | comment | added | knzhou | I find point (2) unsatisfying. Sure, at high temperatures, it should be harder to impose liquid order by pressurizing. But I don't see why it should be impossible. The required pressure could just be enormous. | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 16:03 | comment | added | Phiteros | What is a Widom? | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 15:25 | history | answered | Daniel Duque | CC BY-SA 3.0 |