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The main objective of this work is to measure the complex permittivity of ethanol + methanol liquid solutions over the full composition range at the temperatures 293, 303 and 313 K by the resonant cavity perturbation method. Dielectric parameters were derived using mixture formulae, and the values of excess permittivity and excess inverse relaxation time were determined using these parameters. By comparing the calculated results to the experiment values it was found that the classical Debye equation needs to be modified to calculate the complex permittivity.
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Yang, LJ., Yang, XQ., Huang, KM. et al. Experimental and Theoretic Study of the Dielectric Properties of Ethanol + Methanol Mixtures. J Solution Chem 39, 473–481 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10953-010-9513-1
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