Comparison between longitudinal viscoelastic relaxation and sound dispersion of molecular liquids on the molecular

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi1

  • 1Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.

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