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The free energy of an assembly of slightly nonspherical molecules with a hard core is expressed as the sum of the free energy of a system of equivalent hard spheres plus correction terms related to eccentricity. An estimate of these terms is made for ellipsoidal molecules.
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A. Bellemans (1968) studied this question.
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