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Critical Behavior in a Microemulsion System: I — Experimental Evidence for Field Like Variable

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Surfactants in Solution

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Phase diagram analysis and light scattering results of quaternary and ternary mixtures provide evidence for the existence in the oil rich region of an apparent field variable related to composition: the water over surfactant ratio. In polyphasic regions this variable (denoted X in the following) has the same value in the different phases in equilibrium. For a quaternary mixture we report results concerning a three-phase equilibrium which involves two isotropic phases and a birefringent phase. This three-phase region is limited in the three-dimensional representation of the phase diagram by a critical end point where the two isotropic phases merge. The critical end point was approached at constant temperature as well as by changing the water over surfactant ratio X.

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  1. IBM Corporate Technical Institutes, 500 Columbus Ave., Thornwood, NY, 10594, USA

    Kashmiri Lal Mittal M.Sc.(First Class First), Ph.D. (Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and Indian Chemial Society) (Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and Indian Chemial Society)

  2. Centre de Recherches Paul Pascal, Domaine Universitaire, F-33405, Talence Cedex, France

    P. Bothorel (Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, Assistant Director, Scientific Director of the GRECO “Microemulsions” (French cooperative action on microemulsions), consultant to the French Oil Company) (Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, Assistant Director, Scientific Director of the GRECO “Microemulsions” (French cooperative action on microemulsions), consultant to the French Oil Company)

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Roux, D., Bellocq, A.M. (1986). Critical Behavior in a Microemulsion System: I — Experimental Evidence for Field Like Variable. In: Mittal, K.L., Bothorel, P. (eds) Surfactants in Solution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1833-0_10

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