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| At the Boyle temperature a non-ideal gas, more or less, obeys [[Boyle's law]] (which holds for an [[ideal gas]]). | At the Boyle temperature a non-ideal gas, more or less, obeys [[Boyle's law]] (which holds for an [[ideal gas]]). | ||
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The Boyle temperature, , is the temperature at which the second virial coefficient becomes zero, i.e.
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At the Boyle temperature a non-ideal gas, more or less, obeys Boyle's law (which holds for an ideal gas).