Talk:isochore

Are you sure? A reference would be good. SemperBlotto 19:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• en.wiki's w:Isochoric and this page's isochore. A contour line that corresponds to values measured at identical volumes. For example, a curve on a plot of gas pressure measured at different temperatures in a rigid container is an isochore. Seem to concur. It gets 2150 books.google hits, and I looked through a few which didn't make much sense to me as a non-chem type, but seemed to fit relatively well the definition given.

  Thermodynamics - Page 7 by Enrico Fermi - Science - 1956 - 160 pages

  Thus, an isochore transformation in this case is a transformation at constant volume.

  Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions - Page 2 by J M Yeomans - Science - 1992 - 164 pages

  1.3 shows the specific heat of argon measured along the critical isochore. - TheDaveRoss 20:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• OK - I was a bit hasty. It also seems to have different meanings in geology and genetics. I shall try to improve it. SemperBlotto 21:14, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Fixed. Learning every day! SemperBlotto 21:49, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• The whole thing needs rewriting; it is radically misconceived. The instances previously given illustrate the point. The word is analogous to concepts such as contour only more general; eg a contour usually implies a continuous line or surface; an isochore might refer to discontinuous as well as continuous parameters. One doesn't speak of a separate concept of contour for every use of contour. Unless someone comes up with something better, I shall remove all the past definitions, add something like the entry I have just made, and include the existing quotes under that heading. JonRichfield (talk) 14:32, 12 February 2022 (UTC)