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Further Experimental Evidence for the Theory of Quasi-Properties

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Scott Blair, Veinoglou and Caffyn1 have explained the rheological behaviour of certain complex materials in terms of ‘quasi-properties' ; that is, complex entities in which a number of magnitudes taken together describes the process which the material undergoes as a result of a specified test, the ordinary ‘properties', such as viscosity and elasticity, being changed by the testing process itself.

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  1. Scott Blair, G. W., Veinoglou, B. C., and Caffyn, J. E., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 189, 69 (1947).

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  1. National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading,

    G. W. SCOTT BLAIR

  2. Department of Physics, University of Durham,

    J. E. CAFFYN

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BLAIR, G., CAFFYN, J. Further Experimental Evidence for the Theory of Quasi-Properties. Nature 162, 368–369 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162368a0

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