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Acoustic Velocity Dispersion in some Non-associated Organic Liquids

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OPTICAL-SCATTERING techniques depending on the Brillouin effect1 enable measurements of acoustic velocity to be made at frequencies above the conventional ultrasonic range, namely, above 109 c/s.

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  1. S. E. A. HAKIM

    Present address: Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Guiza, Egypt

  2. W. J. COMLEY

    Present address: Department of Physics, Northern Polytechnic, London, N.7

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  1. Department of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, S.W.7

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HAKIM, S., COMLEY, W. Acoustic Velocity Dispersion in some Non-associated Organic Liquids. Nature 208, 1082–1083 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081082a0

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