P-v-t properties of liquid n-octane

Abstract

"The importance and usefulness of thermodynamics and thermodynamic properties are well accepted facts. Thermodynamics has and will continue to provide a great wealth of necessary information to all phases of chemical engineering. The formalism of thermodynamics is an abstract mathematical world. It is related to the physical world by thermodynamic properties. Herein lies its importance and usefulness -- allowing certain physico-chemical systems to be described and interrelated purely upon a sound mathematical basis, largely independent of any assumptions connected with the fundamental particles..."--Introduction.