viscosity of fluid

[Bill clinton]

HI bees. Can someone please explain the hypothesis of viscosity to their president?

[FreddyFarce]

Viscosity describes the flow rate of a liquid. Things that are very runny, for example water and alcohol are highly viscous. Other liquids, such as molasses with slow flow rates, are determined to be less viscous.

Hope this helps!

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[Rhodium]

Actually, it is the other way around. The easier a liquid flows the less viscous it is.

I guess it has to do how easily the molecules in the fluid can move around each other. Liquid N2 (small, non-polar molecules) has very low viscosity, and liquid helium-4 at temperatures near absolute zero has NO viscosity(!), which makes it possible for it to flow out of a non-tilted beaker.

The longer a molecule is, the harder it is for them to move around each other, that's why butane (C4H10) is less viscous than gasoline (about C6-C8), which in turn is less viscous than kerosene (even longer carbon chains). If polar groups are attached to the molecule, that makes them stick together, that is why butanol C4H9OH is more viscous than butane, and butanediol HO-C4CH8-OH is even more viscous.

http://rhodium.lycaeum.org

[PVnRT_NC8]

um let us not forget taht viscosity is often related to things like boyancy boyancy is really neat thing about viscosity usually as things become more viscious they in fact become more or less dennse ussually more deense with colder tempatures

this means that sometimes oil will sink and water will float or the other way around depending on things like tempature and viscosity, now aint that lava lamp looking so cool now?

Amethystium

[Karl]

Viscosity does not play a part buoyancy, only so far as how long it would take an object to sink (or surface).

Surface tension however can support more dense materials which would otherwise sink.