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IT has been shown recently by Lindsley and Fischer1 that by simplifying the design of the Stormer rotational viscometer and by varying the effective length of the inner cylinder to eliminate end-effect, viscosity may be expressed in terms of the relevant dimensions of the instrument, the weights used and the observed rate of revolution. Further, for Newtonian liquids the viscosity is proportional to both the actuating weight and the time for an arbitrary number of revolutions.
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HIGGINS, H., PLOMLEY, K. Study of the Rheological Properties of Rapidly Thickening Colloidal Systems by Means of the Stormer Viscometer. Nature 163, 22–23 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163022b0
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