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Surface Tension of Aqueous Solutions of Potassium Hydroxide

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MANY inorganic substances behave as volume active agents when they are dissolved in water. One such substance is potassium hydroxide. Surface tension measurements were made on a series of aqueous solutions of potassium hydroxide ranging in concentration from 6.5 to 41.2 weight per cent potassium hydroxide.

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  1. Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Field Research Laboratory, Dallas, Texas

    PEGGY M. DUNLAP & SAM R. FARIS

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DUNLAP, P., FARIS, S. Surface Tension of Aqueous Solutions of Potassium Hydroxide. Nature 196, 1312–1313 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961312a0

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