The Thermodynamic Mafia

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The Thermodynamic Mafia

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Physical chemistry students having an existential crisis in 3...2...1...

The meme brilliantly captures the thermodynamic gang war that's been raging since the 1800s. Ideal Gas Law thinks it's the big shot, but Van der Waals comes in with those pesky molecular interactions. Meanwhile, Redlich-Kwong-Virial is flashing its improved accuracy at high pressures like it's showing off a new sports car.

But the real victim? That poor student in the pews getting absolutely demolished by Soave-Redlich-Kwong-Peng-Robinson and literally ANY real mixture model. Nothing says "I've made terrible life choices" quite like trying to calculate fugacity coefficients at 3 AM before your p-chem final.

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