what is the industrial use of viscosity?
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In the paint industry, vicosity has a major effect on the application of the paint.  When applied with a spray gun, if it is too thin, it will run.  If it is too thick, the paint will adhere roughly to the surface and will not flow into a shiny coating.\n  When reducing the paint with a solvent, a viscosometer is used to determine the proper viscosity for best results.\n\n  Johnny
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yes, the more the  intermolecular distance the more will be viscousity , it means it will be more compressible. Likewise diffusion and surface tension- It is very much clear that diffusion is proportional to inter-molecular distance.
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in its metallic form is an essential component in the making of esters and in the manufacture of organic compounds. This alkali metal is also a component of sodium chloride (NaCl) which is vital to life. Other uses:\n\nIn certain alloys to improve their structure. \nIn soap, in combination with fatty acids. \nTo descale metal (make its surface smooth). \nTo purify molten metals. \nIn sodium vapor lamps, an efficient means of producing light from electricity. \nAs a heat transfer fluid in some types of nuclear reactors and inside the hollow valves of high-performance internal combustion engines.
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Technical applications\nAlthough NO has relatively few industrial uses, it is produced on a massive scale as an intermediate in the Ostwald process for the synthesis of nitric acid from ammonia. In 2005, the US alone produced 6M metric tonnes of nitric acid. As a raw material it is used in the semiconductor industry for various processes. In one of its applications it is used along with nitrous oxide to form oxynitride gates in CMOS devices.\n Miscellaneous applications\nNitric oxide can be used for detecting surface radicals on polymers. Quenching of surface radicals with nitric oxide results in incorporation of nitrogen, which can be quantified by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
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It is being used in the rubber and plastics as well as the wire and cable industries.  For a more complete understanding of its uses check wikipedia.
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Magneto-rheological fluids can change their viscosity in response to an applied magnetic field. Automobile suspension dampers (which are misleadingly called shock absorbers) that use these fluids can provide variable damping to match the characteristics of the road. They are also proposed for use in adaptively damping buildings against seismic vibrations, since they can be controlled to provide optimum damping of the particular frequency content of the disturbance (ref.).
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this question may appear ambiguous to the inexperienced. the question asks for an explanation for the decrease, which implies the asker's initial expectation for an increase. the questioner assumed that viscosity increased with ethanol concentration, but facts led to the conclusion that this trend is only obeyed up to the 40% conc level, after which viscosity decreases with ethanol concentration.\n\nwhy the bell curve? that is what you are supposed to answer, Radagast.\n\n40% ethanol (w/w in water, which is the obvious solvent) happens to be the point at which there is a certain ratio of ethanol to water molecules. this special ratio is apparently the point at which there are maximum interactions (H-bonding) between ethanol and water such that the fluid becomes more viscous than water or ethanol alone.\n\nby increasing ethanol conc from 0-40% you will thus see an increase in viscosity. after 40%, the ratio of water molecules apparently increases, so the fluid viscosity will tend toward the viscosity of ethanol (which is still higher than pure water).\n\nusing arbitrary values, viscosity starts at 1 for pure water, increases to 10 for 40% ethanol, then decreases to 2 for 100% ethanol.
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the use of microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeasts, or biological substances, such as enzymes, to perform specific industrial or manufacturing processes. Applications include production of certain drugs, synthetic hormones, and bulk foodstuffs.
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Application  -----------   -----------------   Performance Features \nAll Polymer Systems --Good monomer emulsion stability, can be used during polymerization or post-added, improves colloidal stability  \nPost-add Emulsifier for PTFE Dispersions--------- Good dispersion stability, low surface tension, freeze-thaw stability \nSilicone Emulsion Stabilizers---------- Excellent emulsifier for challenging systems, provides excellent freeze-thaw stability \n \nAll Acrylics-based Systems------------ Provides good wetting, good monomer emulsion stability, water resistance\nStyrene / Butadiene-based Systems------------ Provides good wetting, good monomer emulsion stability, water resistance \n \nSuspension Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride---------- Provides good wetting, outstanding stabilizer, water resistance \n \nStyrene / Acrylics- based Systems--------------- Provides excellent stabilization, small particle size \nRubber ---------------Provides excellent stabilization \n \nPolychloroprene--------------------- Can be eliminated by coagulation \n\nPVC Film Applications -----------------Provides films of excellent transparency, faster release of bubbles during processing
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It's certainly used in the flexible packaging industry, but defined in several ways, including:\ntensile strength\npuncture resistance\nelongation at break\ntear resistance (in both directions)\ntear propagation resistance\nand many others . . .
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All fluids are viscous.  Some are more so than others, and that has to do with how the fluid interacts with itself on a molecular level.
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It depends on what application you are talking about. If you're making gravy, the best thickening agent is flour. If you're making Jello, the best thickening agent is gelatin. Polyethylene glycol of differing molecular weights is used to increase the viscosity of some solutions (do not eat). All of these agents can be thought of as like sponges that soak up solvent. A good thickening agent would be a polymer that interacts with the solvent of interest.
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Viscous Vic has good stuff
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Contrary to what some science teachers and tour guides may say, glass is NOT a "slow-moving liquid". That's an urban legend.\n\nMany years ago, the method of making glass panes involved spinning a glob of glass on a flat disk until the glass flattened, which caused the outside edge to be thicker than the center. When the disk of glass was cut into panes, one edge was always slightly thicker.\n\n"Estimates of the viscosity of glasses at room temperature run as high as 10 to the 20th power Scientists and engineers may argue about the exact value of that number, but it is doubtful that there is any real physical significance to a viscosity as great as that anyway. As for cathedral windows, it is hard to believe that anything that viscous is going to flow at all.\n\nIt is worth noting, too, that at room temperature the viscosity of metallic lead has been estimated to be about 10 to the11th power, poises, that is, perhaps a billion times less viscous-or a billion times more fluid, if you prefer than glass. Presumably, then, the lead caming that holds stained glass pieces in place should have flowed a billion times more readily than the glass. While lead caming often bends and buckles under the enormous architectural stresses imposed on it, one never hears that the lead has flowed like a liquid."\n-Dr. Robert Brill, Corning Museum of Glass\n\n\np.s. \n\n1. The more viscous a liquid, the higher its resistance to flow - not the other way around. \n\n2. It's "Newtonian", not "Neutonian".\n\n3. Although glass exhibits characteristics of both liquid and solid, it's categorized as an amorphous or "pseudo" solid.
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The use of microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeasts, or biological substances, such as enzymes, to perform specific industrial or manufacturing processes. Applications include the production of certain drugs, synthetic hormones, and bulk foodstuffs as well as the bioconversion of organic waste and the use of genetically altered bacteria in the cleanup of oil spills. \n\nThe application of the principles of engineering and technology to the life sciences; bioengineering. \nSee ergonomics.
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Because they have zero viscosity, superfluids are use as the suspension medium for some very high precision devices such as the gyroscopes that are used to measure minute gravitational effects.  They are also used to disolve gas molecules so that the molecule can be studies spectroscopically while still remaining free to rotate as if in a gas.
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Uh, let me see.....aerodynamics? lol.  To improve how stream-lined a product is so that the wind travels around, through, or under it in such away that it causes the least amount of friction. This helps improve speed, fuel efficiency, and reduces stress on the product.