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The extension of the Maier-Saupe treatment of nematic liquid crystals discussed in previous papers is able to give a quantitative description of the following properties of p-azoxyanisole: (a) the volume change at the nematic-isotropic transition point Tc , (b) the temperature variation of the long range orientational order parameter s 1 at constant pressure, (c) the temperature variation of s 1 at constant volume, (d) the volume variation of s 1 at constant temperature, and (e) the pressure invariance of s 1 at T c.
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Chandrasekhar et al. (1973) studied this question.
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