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The degradation of polymer solutions of different concentration was investigated. It was found that a polymer solution that has been degraded by prolonged subjection to shear stress does not recover its drag-reducing properties after freezedrying and re-solution.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 235–237, February, 1980.
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Anisimov, I.A., Mironov, B.P. Irreversibility of degradation of polymer solutions. Journal of Engineering Physics 38, 141–142 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00861867
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00861867