A Critical Evaluation of the Thermophysical Properties of Mercury

For the use of a mercury column for precise pressure measurements—such as the pressurized 30 meter mercury‐in‐steel column used at the Van der Waals–Zeeman Laboratory for the calibration of piston gauges up to nearly 300 MPa—it is highly important to have accurate knowledge of such properties of mer...

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Published inJournal of physical and chemical reference data Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 807 - 827
Main Authors Holman, G. J. F., ten Seldam, C. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.1994
Subjects
1080
1090
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
TEMPERATURE RANGE 273−400 K
THERMAL EXPANSION
COMPRESSIBILITY
0570
0270
PRESSURE DEPENDENCE
SPECIFIC HEAT
DATA ANALYSIS
DENSITY
MERCURY
ENTHALPY
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
0330
ENTROPY
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Summary:For the use of a mercury column for precise pressure measurements—such as the pressurized 30 meter mercury‐in‐steel column used at the Van der Waals–Zeeman Laboratory for the calibration of piston gauges up to nearly 300 MPa—it is highly important to have accurate knowledge of such properties of mercury as density, isobaric secant and tangent volume thermal expansion coefficients, and isothermal secant and tangent compressibilities as functions of temperature and pressure. In this paper we present a critical assessment of the available information on these properties. Recommended values are given for the properties mentioned and, in addition, for properties derived from theses such as entropy, enthalpy, internal energy, and the specific heat capacities.
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ISSN:0047-2689
1529-7845
DOI:10.1063/1.555952