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Thermal Conductivity of Liquid Estimation by JAVA Applet

Draw molecule at cyan panel. How to use animation1, animation2
Change atom type or delete atom, mouse down and up at the same atom.

Cis-, Trans- compounds return average of both.
Hydrogen will be added automatically by program.

Thermal conductivity, ll, is defined as the quantity of heat which will traverse a medium of unit thickness and cross-sectional area per unit time, under the influence of an applied temperature gradient. Values of ll are usually in the range of 250-400 X 10-6 cal/cm s K, but some liquids with a high degree of association, such as may occur with hydrogen bonding, have higher conductivities. The thermal conductivity of organic liquids is generally estimated by means of equations that utilize other known properties of the material and, to a lesser extent, structural considerations. Sato - Riedel and Robbins - Kingrea Method is very popular. Thermal conductivity is only weakly a function of temperature, usually decreasing as temperature increases. At ambient conditions, any temperature correction to ll would likely be less than other uncertainties in the calculation.