AApplication of the Congruence Principle to Viscosities of 1-Chloroalkane Binary Mixtures

Abstract

Viscosities are reported at 25 °C in five 1-chloroalkane binary systems. Mixture data are presented both as kinematic viscosity and as excess Gibbs free energy of activation for flow. The latter quantity is correlated with the average chain length in the mixtures by graphical and analytical forms of Brønsted and Koefoed's principle of congruence. This correlation serves as a basis for prediction of mixture viscosities for 1-chloroalkane pairs having chain lengths within the observed extremes: 1-chlorobutane and 1-chlorooctadecane. Errors as kinematic viscosity by this method are less than 5.5% for the systems studied.