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New experimental results are reported for the surface tension of normal pentane, hexane, heptane, and octane. The data were obtained with a differential capillary-rise method and cover the entire liquid range from the triple-point temperature to the critical temperature. Equations for calculating the surface tension of these n-alkanes as a function of temperature are presented.
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Grigoryev, B.A., Nemzer, B.V., Kurumov, D.S. et al. Surface tension of normal pentane, hexane, heptane, and octane. Int J Thermophys 13, 453–464 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00503882
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