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by amluto
2878 days ago
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I am highly skeptical of using Wolfram Alpha like this. It steadfastly refuses to explain how it got its answer or what sources it used. These are high pressures and large densities. Are these results of an ideal gas law calculation? Are they results from the van der Waals equation? Are they extrapolated from actual experimental data? If so, what experiment? What are the error bars? Are they talking about pure Hydrogen-1 or are they talking about the isotopic mix found in sea water? (The latter is a small correction, but it’s still something that they should explain on the site.) |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP)
https://www.nist.gov/srd/refprop
I.e. these are standard reference curves at a fixed temperature.
If you click the link on "Hydrogen" you get a page for molecular hydrogen, H2, so not an isotopic mix. Whether that's the right input for this calculation is beyond my technical knowledge, but Wolfram is displaying its parameters quite straightforwardly.
To my reading it looks like a quite well-explained calculation, though I can see why you might think otherwise if you hadn't spotted the somewhat-hidden "sources" link.