The geometric volume of the part of the tube that contains the packing:
where

is the internal cross-sectional area of the tube
and

the length of the packed part of the column.
In the case of wall-coated open-tubular columns the column volume corresponds to the
geometric volume of the whole tube having a liquid or a solid stationary phase on
its wall.
Source:
PAC, 1993, 65, 819
(Nomenclature for chromatography (IUPAC Recommendations 1993))
on page 832
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