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Published on: June 28, 2017
On the pressure dependence of the fragility of glycerol
1Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.
Abstract:
This work was motivated by ostensibly contradictory results from different groups regarding the effect of pressure on the fragility of glycerol. We present new experimental data for an intermediate pressure regime showing that the fragility increases with pressure up to about 1.8 GPa, becoming invariant at higher pressures. There is no discrepancy among the various literature data taken in toto. The behavior of glycerol is quite distinct from that of normal liquids, a result of its substantial hydrogen bonding.
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