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From: NELSON%VWSCYG@vmsc.oac.uci.edu (Matthew A. Nelson)
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Subject: Equation library weirdness
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Date: 17 Dec 90 20:06:00 GMT
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Hello, all.
  I just encountered some weirdness in the equation library card's 
periodic table.  I needed to know the heat of vaporization for liquid
nitrogen.  "Ah ha," me thinks, "that's in the 48's periodic table."
When I looked it up, it gave me a value of 2.7928 kJ/mol.  Great.
The only problem was that when I compared the results of my calculations
to those my boss worked out, I was exactly a factor of 2 off.  It turns
out that when the equation library gives 2.8 kJ/mol, it is talking about
per mole of N, not per mole of N2.  For cryin' out loud, who has ever heard
of LN1 ?!  When I finally figured this out, I went digging in the manual,
and found no mention of this rather odd way to present physical properties.
  I guess that I can assume that this 'atomic standard' is the usual for
the equation library.
  Just thought that I'd pass the info along...

  -matt