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Are the temperatures of the components of a homogeneous mixture of two gases in the state of thermodynamic equilibrium equal?

Yu.M. Loskutov

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 1991. 46. N 3. P. 5

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It is shown that in the state of thermodynamic equilibrium of a two-component mixture of gases the mean kinetic energies of different kinds of molecules are unequal. Binary (nonmultiplicative) two-temperature distribution functions corresponding to the state of thermodynamic equilibrium have been found. In the general case, the equilibrium temperatures of mixture components turned out to depend on molecular masses and concentrations. The transition to a one-component gas leads to the commonly known results.

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Yu.M. Loskutov
Department of Quantum Theory and High-Energy Physics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Issue 3, 1991

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