The minimum pressure which would suffice to liquefy a substance at its
critical temperature. Above the critical pressure, increasing the temperature will not cause a fluid to
vaporize to give a two-phase system.
Source:
PAC, 1993, 65, 2397
(Nomenclature for supercritical fluid chromatography and extraction (IUPAC Recommendations
1993))
on page 2399
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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