1. fugacity - Noun
2. fugacity - Adjective
The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
Uncertainty; instability.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy great pleasure is creation-of this I never tire. Some of my guests have complained of a gentle melancholy which hangs in the air; I agree that the mood exists. The explanation, I believe, arises from the fugacity of beauty, the tragic pavanne to which all of us step. Jack Vance
For reactions in the gas phase partial pressure is used in place of concentration and fugacity coefficient in place of activity coefficient. Source: Internet
Fugacity, f, is the product of partial pressure and fugacity coefficient. Source: Internet
He derived free energy from fugacity; he tried, without success, to obtain an exact expression for the entropy function, which in 1901 had not been defined at low temperatures. Source: Internet
His new idea of fugacity, or "escaping tendency", was a function with the dimensions of pressure which expressed the tendency of a substance to pass from one chemical phase to another. Source: Internet
In the real world, for example, when making ammonia in industry, fugacity coefficients must be taken into account. Source: Internet