Thermal conductivities of binary mixtures of organic vapours and inert diluents

Abstract

Thermal conductivities of the six sets of binary mixtures of n-pentane, diethyl ether, n-hexane and diethyl peroxide (5- and 6-membered chain species) with one another, and of their sixteen sets of binary mixtures with helium, neon or argon (monatomic species), or nitrogen (diatomic species), have been measured at 50 and 100°C. Marked similarities between all the polyatomic molecules (chain species) are shown by their individual thermal conductivities and by their behaviour in mixtures with monatomic and diatomic molecules.