| Definitions | noun Virial
n. L. vis, viris, force. Half of the product of the stress of attraction or repulsion by the distance between two particles.
This term is used freely in James Clark Maxwell'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_Maxwell On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies.
"The quantity 1/2 Rr, or half the product of the attraction into the distance across which the attraction is exerted, is defined by Clausis Prof. Clausis of Bonn as the virial of the attraction. (In the case of pressure or repulsion, the virial is negative.)"
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