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Prigogine and Defay say relax

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For an important class of liquids, relaxation dynamics are constrained by a surprisingly simple scaling relationship between density and temperature. It seems that thermodynamics holds the key to pinning down the exponent.

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Figure 1: Excess heat capacity (ΔCp), expansivity (Δαp) and compressibility (ΔκT) of liquid over crystal for OTP.

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  1. C. Austen Angell and Iolanda Santana Klein are in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Arizona 85287, USA,

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Angell, C., Klein, I. Prigogine and Defay say relax. Nature Phys 7, 750–751 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2113

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