Shows instability in gas medium relates to equilibrium states, indicating theoretical predictions are valid.
It is shown that instability in the van der Waals equation of state at the vapor-liquid boundary corresponds to an intermediate interphase equilibrium in which the total volume of the medium disintegrates into a set of cells. Each of them contains a liquid droplet of critical size ∝Rc and occupies a volume ∝ 1pt l_c³ R_c³ with a radius ∝ 1pt R_c , which consistently arises from Maxwell’s rule on the “tie” line of the equation of state in the van der Waals form. An experiment involving DLVO colloids confirms the predictions of the theory.
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