Brillouin scattering in liquid sulfur dioxide: Relaxational behaviour

Maurizio Musso, Francesco Aliotta, Cirino Vasi, R Aschauer, Augustinus Asenbaum, Emmerich Wilhelm

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Abstract

The frequency dependence of hypersonic absorption and the dispersion of hypersonic speed in liquid sulfur dioxide (SO2) were determined at (293.75‘0.30) K and at (284.65‘0.30) K by Brillouin spectroscopy. The results are used to experimentally establish the second relaxation step in the double vibrational relaxation of these quantities in the liquid phase, which was first conjectured by R. Bass and J. Lamb, Proc. R. Soc. Ser. A (1958) 243, 94. This second relaxation takes place at approximately 1.5 GHz for both temperatures within experimental error, whereas the first relaxation step, previously determined by ultrasonic spectroscopy, takes place at approximately 23 MHz. In the course of this investigation, some evidence was found that for the temperatures considered the shear viscosity relaxes in the hypersonic frequency range. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNovel Approaches to the Structure and Dynamics of Liquids
Subtitle of host publicationExperiments, Theories and Simulations
Editors Jannis Samios
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
Pages33-41
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)1-402-01847-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Publication series

SeriesJournal of Molecular Liquids
Number1-3
Volume110
ISSN0167-7322

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 104017 Physical chemistry

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