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At the Boyle temperature of a gas, the second virial coefficient is

  1. Apositive
  2. Bnegative
  3. Czero
  4. Dinfinite

Answer: C

A negative corresponds to dominant attraction and a positive to dominant repulsion. The Boyle temperature is defined as the temperature where , so the gas obeys to first order.
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