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Virial coefficients of the van der Waals gas (B2​=b−a/(kB​T),Bj​=bj−1 (j≥3))

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Expanding p=nkB​T/(1−nb)−an2 at nb≪1 gives the second virial coefficient B2​=b−a/(kB​T) and the displayed higher density-series coefficients. These are the Van der Waals gas predictions, not exact coefficients for every fluid. The vanishing of B2​ at the Boyle temperature removes only the leading density correction.

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