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Explain about Andrew's Experimental isotherms of CO_(2) gas.

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Solution :(i) Andrew's isotherms of carbon dioxide at different temperactures is SHOWN in FIGURE From the plots we can infer the following.
(II) Atlow temperature isotherms, for example, at `13^(@)C` as te pressure increases, the volume decreases along AB and is a gas until the point B is reached.
(iii) At B, a liquid separates along the line Bc,Both the liquid and gas co-exist and the pressure remains constant.
(iv) The volume range is which the liquid and gas coexist becomes SHORTER.
(vi) At the temperature of `31.1^(@)C` the length of the shorter portion is reduced to zero at point P.
(vii) The `CO_(2)` gas is liquefied completely at this point. This temperature is known as the liquefaction temperature or critical temperature of `CO_(2)` at this point the pressure is 73 atm.
(VIII) Above this temperature `CO_(2)` remains as a gas at all pressure values.


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