Fast pressure quenches near the critical point of a binary liquid mixture

E.A. Clerke and J.V. Sengers

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1983, vol. 118, issue 1, 360-370

Abstract: Spinodal decomposition can be induced in liquid mixtures near the critical point by application of a fast pressure quench. As a result of such a pressure quench 1) the relative temperature of the system with respect to the critical temperature changes because of the dependence of the critical temperature on pressure, and 2) the absolute temperature of the system changes because of the finite value of the adiabatic thermal pressure coefficient. Experiments show that the first effect is dominant in isobutyric acid + water studied by other investigators and the second effect is dominant in 3-methylpentane + nitroethane studied by us. It is demonstrated that the adiabatic thermal pressure coefficient undergoes a rapidly varying anomalous behavior at temperatures very close to the critical temperature.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(83)90205-4

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