Prigogine-Defay ratio
The Prigogine-Defay ratio is given by (Ref. 2 Eq. 1):
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References
- I. Prigogine and R. Defay "Chemical Thermodynamics" Longman (1954) (out of print)
- Jürn W. P. Schmelzer and Ivan Gutzow "The Prigogine-Defay ratio revisited", Journal of Chemical Physics 125 184511 (2006)
- R. M. Pick "The Prigogine–Defay ratio and the microscopic theory of supercooled liquids", Journal of Chemical Physics 129 124115 (2008)