Abstract

Winsor IV phases (the so-called microemulsions) were made from water and benzene, using as the surface-active agent a fixed combination of potassium oleate with any one of the eight isomers of pentanol. It was shown that the electrical behaviour of the microemulsions can be correlated to phase diagram features, which are strongly influenced, other things being equal, by the chemical structure of the alcohol used as the cosurfactant. A discussion is given of what the results obtained imply regarding the structure of microemulsions and the phase-inversion phenomenon.

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