A measure of relative media density $\begin{array}{l}\rho\end{array}$ change under a unit pressure $\begin{array}{l}p\end{array}$ variation:

(1)	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle c = \frac{1}{\rho} \left( \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial p} \right)_T = - \frac{1}{V} \left( \frac{\partial V}{\partial p} \right)_T\end{array}$

Symbol	Dimension	SI units	Oil metric units	Oil field units
$\begin{array}{l}c\end{array}$	M^-1 L¹T²	Pa^-1	kPa^-1	psi^-1

Alternative form:

(2)	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle c = - \frac{1}{V} \left( \frac{\partial V}{\partial p} \right)_T\end{array}$

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