title: Viscosity anomaly near the critical point in nitrobenzene + alkane binary systems.
abstract: The viscosity near the critical point in nitrobenzene+hexane and nitrobenzene+heptane binary systems was studied by examining the viscosity values for critical mixtures at a variable temperature as obtained with a falling-ball viscometer. The regular part of the viscosity of the critical mixtures was calculated by interpolating measurements made at noncritical concentrations. Because viscosity anomaly studies must be conducted at zero shear, a method allowing the estimation of the effective shear for this type of viscometer was developed with a view to introducing the corrections required. This methodology was used to determine the critical exponent for the viscosity anomaly in nitrobenzene+hexane and nitrobenzene+heptane systems, which were found to be 0.0422+/-0.0004 and 0.0432+/-0.0013 , respectively, very consistent with the accepted value: 0.043.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Vigo, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Ourense, E 32004 Ourense, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Souto-Caride
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Troncoso
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peleteiro
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Carballo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Romaní