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I HAD not meant to express any special views about critical temperature. It is true that the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn are above the critical temperatures of some substances, but I imagine critical temperatures become completely unimportant when the pressure is 10,000 or more times the critical pressure; the a/v2 of Van der Waals becomes insignificant compared with the p, so that the equation of state reduces to p(v-b)=αT. Consequently I should expect all substances to behave similarly, whatever their ordinary critical temperatures may be, and in a way which will certainly be very different from that of the usual gas.
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JEANS, J. “The Physical Condition of the Planets”. Nature 147, 747 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147747a0
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