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For a large class of intermolecular potentials, the values of the second virial coefficient at a discrete set of temperature points in an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the origin determine the potential uniquely.
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Singh, S.R., Zerner, M.C. On the inversion of the classical second virial coefficient. J Stat Phys 14, 351–357 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01030199
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