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IT is well known that the molecular polarisation of alcohols in a non-polar medium is exceptional in that it at first increases with concentration and then falls finally to a lower value than that at which it started. The data of Williams and Allgeier1 show that at 25° up to a molar fraction of 0.345 the polarisation of phenol in benzene is constant, whilst those of Donle and Gehrckens2 show a decrease in polarisation at 22° up to a concentration of 0.05 molar fraction phenol and those of Philip and Haynes3 an increase at 20° in dilute solutions. I have measured the polarisation of phenol in benzene at 70° with the following results: c2 is the molar fraction of phenol, ϵ is the dielectric constant, d is the density, and P2 is molecular polarisation of phenol. The molecular polarisation of benzene at this temperature is 26-928.
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MARTIN, A. Dielectric Polarisation of Phenol. Nature 135, 909 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135909a0
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