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1.41 One type of capillary-tube viscometer is shown in
Video V 1.5 and in Fig. Pl.41 . For this device the liquid to Glass
strengthening -
be tested is drawn into the tube to a level above the top

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bridge
etched line. The time is then obtained for the liquid to drain

is then obtained from the equation v = KR4t where K is a

to the bottom etched line. The kinematic viscosity, v, in m'ts

constant, R is the radius of the capillary tube in mm, and t

Etched lines

;�
is the drain time in seconds. When glycerin at 20· C is used

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as a calibration fluid in a particular viscometer the drain time
Capillary
is 1,430 s. When a liquid having a density of 970 kglml is
tube
tested in the same viscometer the drain time is 900 s. What
is the dynamic viscosity of this liquid?

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X/0-7 /'I'1121s2.
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'f=
k. R 8,32

/Iiu/d wdn t=- 100s

v= (g. $.l j, / () "-Is 2.) (C, 00 S )
-7 /'t11

=�-v
=
(97 0 -k#�3) (7. If 9 X/0 tm1s) -If

6_727 � (),717
(In.J
= =

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