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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: compressibility
Synonym1: bulk compressibility
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Symbol: Κ
Definition: quantity Κ=1VdVdp characterizing the relative variation of volume V with pressure p under given conditions

NOTE 1 See the thermodynamic concepts of isothermal compressibility and isentropic compressibility.

NOTE 2 The coherent SI unit of compressibility is pascal to the power minus one, Pa−1.


Publication date:2011-04
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Internal notes:2014-07-10: <!--><i>&kappa;</i> corrected to <i>&Kappa;</i>. The formula in the definition should be corrected so that it is all ext or all graphic at some point. JGO

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