fugacity in English

noun
1
the quality of being fleeting or evanescent.
2
a thermodynamic property of a real gas that, if substituted for the pressure or partial pressure in the equations for an ideal gas, gives equations applicable to the real gas.
The fugacity of sulphur dioxide becomes high enough for the gas to start escaping.
noun
    fugaciousness

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1. If a rock contains pure minerals that constitute a redox buffer, then the oxygen fugacity of equilibration is defined by one of the curves in the accompanying fugacity-temperature diagram.

2. Figure 15 shows the oxygen fugacity of mare Basalts as a function of temperature

3. At 1100 deg C, the oxygen fugacity in mare Basalts is about 10-13 compared with about 10-58 in

4. It can also be used to calculate the fugacity of oxygen recorded by mineral assemblages in metamorphic and igneous processes.

5. 2.3.1.6 Environmental partitioning Fugacity modelling was conducted to characterize key reaction, intercompartment and advection (movement out of a system) pathways for acrolein and its overall distribution in the environment.

6. 21 Analysis of the data indicates that the decomposition rate of carbon dioxide hydrate is proportional to the fugacity difference at the equilibrium state pressure and the decomposition pressure.

7. relative contributions from various media — on the basis of the limited monitoring data in ambient and indoor air (Conor Pacific Environmental, 1998), a limited survey of levels in foodstuffs in Denmark (Jensen, 1988) and concentrations in drinking water and air predicted by the ChemCAN 4 regional fugacity model, when advective input from bordering U.S. states was included (Health Canada, 1999a).