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To Thicken Up Runny Mixtures -- Add Fluid? (1 of 6)

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To Thicken Up Runny Mixtures -- Add Fluid? (1 of 6)

video: Prevention of settling in aqueous suspensions of PVC through the addition of 1% vol oil, which preferentially wets the particles. This video relates to an article that appeared in the Feb. 18, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Erin Koos and Dr. Norbert Willenbacher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, was titled, "Capillary Forces in Suspension Rheology." view more 

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