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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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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