Web Thermo Tables - an On-Line Version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables

Andrei Kazakov1, Chris D Muzny1, Robert D Chirico1

  • 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, USA.

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