Thermal Expansivity of Ternary Liquid Mixtures: Application of Hard-Sphere Models and Flory's Statistical Theory |
| Anjali Awasthi, B.S. Tripathi and Aashees Awasthi
Department of Physics, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India |
| Received: July 14, 2009; revised version: February 26, 2010; in final form: July 15, 2010 |
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| Seven hard-sphere models and Flory's statistical mechanical theory have been applied to evaluate thermal expansion coefficient of ternary liquid systems involving dimethyl sulfoxide with phenol/o-cresol in carbon tetrachloride at 293.15, 303.15 and 313.15 K. The results thus obtained are compared with the experimental values of thermal expansivity. The relative applicability of all these approaches to the present investigation has been checked and discussed. The excess values of thermal expansivity have also been calculated and utilized to study the presence and strength of intermolecular interactions in the ternary liquid systems under investigation. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.118.589 PACS numbers: 65.40.De, 65.60.+a |