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Century-old physics idea explains why cubic fluid equations work

Mean error in saturated-liquid volume over 76 fluids (fully predictive mode); the new model gives the lowest deviation, 4.0%.

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The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed a new cubic equation of state (EOS) that provides a physical justification for a mathematical structure that the chemical and petroleum industries have relied on for more than half a century without a first-principles explanation.

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