Who was Van der Waals anyway and what has he to do with my Nitrox fill?
JOHANNES DIDERIK VAN DER WAALS 1837-1923 Amsterdam University 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. This tends to indicate that he knew his stuff. OK. The simple rules for gases about pressure, volume and temperature that you learnt in Scuba for beginners are only [...]