The order of the phase transition within a long polymer molecule in dilute solution brought about by the intramolecular forces is investigated within the context of a lattice model. It is found that the entropy is continuous at the transition but that the density changes discontinuously, implying that the transition has features of both first- and second-order transitions.
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