METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

Paradoxes of gas mixing

© 1976 American Institute of Physics
, , Citation I P Bazarov 1976 Sov. Phys. Usp. 19 271 DOI 10.1070/PU1976v019n03ABEH005143

0038-5670/19/3/271

Abstract

A unified explanation of the Gibbs and Einstein paradoxes and of a new paradox in the mixing of quantum ideal gases is given. It is shown that all three paradoxes are due to the same physical cause–the corresponding discontinuity in the partial density on going from mixing of different gases to mixing of identical gases.

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10.1070/PU1976v019n03ABEH005143