What is Fugacity and its Relationship to Pressure?

[asdf1]

could someone explain what's fugacity and what it has to do with pressure?

 

[Tide]

Fugacity is a term used by Boyle and is related to the pressure but implies the property or tendency of a gas to expand. Here are some details you may want to look at: http://opera.answers.com/fugacity

 

[asdf1]

thank you very much!

 

[dextercioby]

It's also a parameter in statistical mechanics involving chemical potential and absolute temperature. Pressure can be linked with fugacity via partial derivatives and a use of Clapeyron-Mendeleev equation.

Daniel.

 

[asdf1]

wow! thank you again!