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virials

virials is the plural of virial.

Meaning of virial

Noun

virial (plural virials)

  1. One-half of the product of the stress of attraction or repulsion with the distance between two particles.
    • The quantity 1/2 Rr, or half the product of the attraction into the distance across which the attraction is exerted, is defined by Clausis [Prof. Clausis of Bonn] as the virial of the attraction. (In the case of pressure or repulsion, the virial is negative.)1875, James Clerk Maxwell, “On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies”, in Nature, 11 (1875), 357-359, 374-377

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What is virials the plural of?
Virials is the plural of virial.

Words near virials in the dictionary

  1. virializations
  2. virialize
  3. virialized
  4. virializes
  5. virializing
  6. virials
  7. viricidal
  8. viricide
  9. viricides
  10. virid
  11. viridenomycin

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