Dispersive Fourier transform spectroscopy in the visible (DFTS-VIS) is used to study the complex refractive index A of equilibrium mixtures of N O D 2 0 4 in the gas phase between 290 and 350 K and in the wavenumber range between 11 000 and 19 000 cm-'. With the aid of quantum-chemical MBPTMP2 calculations of the components of the static dipole polarizability tensor of N2O4, the quasi-continuous spectra of the complex mean dipole polarizability = a -ia' of the neat components NO2 and N204 are obtained. On the other hand, for these neat components a(uo) at wavenumber 00 = 15 798 cm-' is experimentally determined to be ano,(uo) = 3.0233(37) x m3 and aN,o,(uo) = 6.69(13) x m3. The static limit of the mean dipole polarizability a of N204 is calculated to be a(0) = 6.43(19) x m3. In addition, we report experimental results on the equilibrium constant Kp of the dimerization equilibrium N204 === 2N02, obtained from the temperature and pressure dependence of iz, as well as quantum-chemical calculations of the quadrupole and hexadecapole moment tensors of N2O4.