A variational associating fluid theory is proposed to describe equations of state for expanded fluid mercury. The theory is based on the soft-sphere variational theory, incorporating an ab initio diatomic potential and an attractive many-body potential; the latter is evaluated with quatnum chemical methods and expressed as a function of the local atomic coordination number and the nearest-neighbor distance. The resultant equation of state can reproduce the observed gas-liquid coexistence curve with good accuracy, without introducing phenomenological effective pair potentials. Various thermodynamic quantities such as pressure, isochoric thermal pressure coefficient, adiabatic sound velocity, and specific heat are calculated over a wide density-temperature range and compared with available experimental data.

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