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Experimental determination of the thermodynamic properties of three nematic liquid crystals

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The results of measurements of the density, the magnetic susceptibility, the molar specific heat, and the heat of the nematic-isotropic transition are reported.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    A. G. Shashkov, I. P. Zhuk & V. A. Karolik

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 467–472, September, 1985.

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Shashkov, A.G., Zhuk, I.P. & Karolik, V.A. Experimental determination of the thermodynamic properties of three nematic liquid crystals. Journal of Engineering Physics 49, 1096–1100 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872758

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