REVIEW OF PROPERTIES OF THE SYSTEM 2-BUTOXYETHANOL WATER IN THE VICINITY OF ITS LOWER CRITICAL-POINT RELEVANT TO AN EXPERIMENT TO BE CARRIED OUT UNDER REDUCED GRAVITY

Authors
KLEIN H WOERMANN D
Citation
H. Klein et D. Woermann, REVIEW OF PROPERTIES OF THE SYSTEM 2-BUTOXYETHANOL WATER IN THE VICINITY OF ITS LOWER CRITICAL-POINT RELEVANT TO AN EXPERIMENT TO BE CARRIED OUT UNDER REDUCED GRAVITY, Advances in colloid and interface science, 50, 1994, pp. 15-22
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Physical
Journal title
Advances in colloid and interface science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00018686
Volume
50
Year of publication
1994
Pages
15 - 22
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-8686(1994)50:<15:ROPOTS>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The system 2-butoxyethanol/water is chosen as a transparent model syst em to study the physics behind the unexpectedly massive separation of coexisting phases in monotectic alloys under microgravity conditions. For that purpose the experiment NUGRO was proposed. It will be carried out during the German Spacelab Mission D-2 with the aim of studying t he kinetics of liquid/liquid phase separation in the system 2-butoxyet hanol/water. The results obtained in the ground-based research program of NUGRO were used in the planning of the space experiment and will b e needed to understand its physics. A review of the ground-based resea rch is given.