The volume from which a macromolecule in a
dilute solution of a macromolecule effectively excludes all other macromolecules. The excluded volume
of a macromolecule depends on the Gibbs and Helmholtz energies of mixing of solvent
and polymer, i.e. on the thermodynamic quality of the solvent, and is not a measure
of the geometrical volume of that macromolecule.
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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).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
