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(mechanics) Of or pertaining to the interactive forces between molecules or particles examples
plural virials
(mechanics) Half of the product of the stress of attraction or repulsion with the distance between two particles. quotations examples
The quantity 1/2 Rr, or half the product of the attraction into the distance across which the attraction is exerted, is defined by Clausis [Prof. Clausis of Bonn] as the virial of the attraction. (In the case of pressure or repulsion, the virial is negative.)
1875, James Clerk Maxwell, “On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies”, in Nature, 11 (1875), 357-359, 374-377
Misspelling of viral. examples