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ic Confirming Pages Exp. 48 Statistical Thermodynamics of lodine Sublimation 525 In order to evaluate the canonical partition function Q for a gas, we shall consider the system to be composed of an aggregate of essentially independent particles (molecules). As we shall see later, a crystal may be…