virtual soils lab | appendix c: specific gravity viscosity of distilled water

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Appendix C - SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND VISCOSITY OF DISTILLED WATER

SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF DISTILLED WATER

^oC	⁰	¹	²	³	⁴	⁵	⁶	⁷	⁸	⁹
⁰	^0.99990	^0.99990	^1.00000	^1.00000	^1.00000	^1.00000	^1.00000	^0.99990	^0.99990	^0.99980
¹⁰	^0.99973	^0.99963	^0.99952	^0.99940	^0.99927	^0.99913	^0.99897	^0.99880	^0.99862	^0.99843
²⁰	^0.99823	^0.99802	^0.99780	^0.99757	^0.99733	^0.99707	^0.99681	^0.99654	^0.99626	^0.99597
³⁰	^0.99568	^0.99540	^0.99510	^0.99470	^0.99440	^0.99410	^0.99370	^0.99340	^0.99300	^0.99260
⁴⁰	^0.99220	^0.99190	^0.99150	^0.99110	^0.99070	^0.99020	^0.98980	^0.98940	^0.98900	^0.98850

VISCOSITY OF DISTILLED WATER*

^oC	⁰	¹	²	³	⁴	⁵	⁶	⁷	⁸	⁹
⁰	^17.94	^17.32	^16.74	^16.19	^15.68	^15.19	^14.73	^14.29	^13.87	^13.48
¹⁰	^13.10	^12.74	^12.39	^12.06	^11.75	^11.45	^11.16	^10.88	^10.60	^10.34
²⁰	^10.09	^9.84	^9.61	^9.38	^9.16	^8.95	^8.75	^8.55	^8.36	^8.18
³⁰	^8.00	^7.83	^7.67	^7.51	^7.36	^7.21	^7.06	^6.92	^6.79	^6.66
⁴⁰	^6.54	^6.42	^6.30	^6.18	^6.08	^5.97	^5.87	^5.77	^5.68	^5.58
⁵⁰	^5.49	^5.40	^5.32	^5.24	^5.15	^5.07	^4.99	^4.92	^4.84	^4.77

*These are values of absolute viscosity, with units of millipoises.

There are 10³ millipoises in 1 poise, and 1 poiseis 1 dyne-sec/cm² or 1/980 gm-sec/cm²