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What does the following statement below mean?
"The excluded volume
is not just equal to the volume occupied by the solid, finite-sized particles, but actually four times that volume. To see this, we must realize that a particle is surrounded by a sphere of radius 2r (two times the original radius) that is forbidden for the centers of the other particles. If the distance between two particle centers were to be smaller than 2r, it would mean that the two particles penetrate each other, which, by definition, hard spheres are unable to do."
if there is n molecules won't b just be 4/3r^3 where r is the radius of the gas molecule?
"The excluded volume
if there is n molecules won't b just be 4/3r^3 where r is the radius of the gas molecule?