Critical Behavior of the Ultrasonic Attenuation for the Binary Mixture of Water and Phenol
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Original research
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The dynamic shear viscosity of the binary liquid mixture water – phenol was measured for different temperatures and concentrations using the glass capillary and digital viscometers. Dynamic shear viscosity anomaly was detected near the critical temperature Tc = 67.0 ◦C and the critical concentration xc = 33.9% by weight of phenol. The specific heat at constant pressure was calculated using the two scale factor universality and found to be 242 J/(kg K). The critical and the background isobaric thermal expansion coefficients were determined and found to be 2.73 · 10−3 ◦C−1 and 22.6 · 10−3 ◦C−1 respectively. Ultrasonic attenuation data at 9, 15, 30 and 35 MHz were analyzed using the dynamic scaling theory of Ferrell and Bhattacharjee. The values of αc/f 2 versus f −1.06 yields a straight line as predicted by the theory. The experimental values of α(xc, T )/αc (xc, Tc ) for water – phenol were compared to the scaling function F (ω∗) and showed good agreement with the theory.

Journal
Title
ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA
Publisher
S HIRZEL VERLAG
Publisher Country
Germany
Indexing
Thomson Reuters
Impact Factor
1.119
Publication Type
Prtinted only
Volume
103
Year
2017
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