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
✍ Scribed by H. Klein; D. Woermann
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 540 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-8686
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✦ Synopsis
The system 2-butoxyethanol/water is chosen as a transparent model system 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 the kinetics of liquidfliquid phase separation in the system 2-butoxyethanoll water. The results obtained in the ground-based research program of NUGRO were used in the planning of the space experiment and will be needed to understand its physics. A review of the ground-based research is given.