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Pressure-volume-temperature relationships were determined using the piston-cylinder methods for a liquid crystal, p-pentoxybenzilidene-p-n-butylaniline. For the nematic state, the intermolecular potential was found to be dependent on 3.6 powers of the density.
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Hanawa et al. (1977) studied this question.
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