Defining chemical expansion: the choice of units for the stoichiometric expansion coefficient

Dario Marrocchelli1, Christodoulos Chatzichristodoulou, Sean R Bishop

  • 1Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

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