Viscosity-Molecular Weight of Rubber. Cryoscopic Deviation of Rubber Solutions from Raoult's Law
Abstract 1. The cryoscopic method is not satisfactory for polyprenes with chain lengths much greater than about 20 isoprene units on account of the failure of their solutions to obey Raoult's law. 2. Since Staudinger's viscosity-molecular weight constants were in many cases determined on nonideal solutions, this subject will be further investigated. 3. The present work has led to the selection of a Kcm value of 0.75 × 104, which is 25 per cent lower that the value chosen by Staudinger, who used higher polymers which do not behave ideally in solution. 4. The use of Staudinger's equation, M=ηsp/CKm, leads to large deviations with the variations in viscosity usually employed, and this deviation is largely avoided by employing the equation M=(log ηr/C)Kcm.