Determination of the temperature and concentration dependence
of the refractive index of a
liquid mixture
W. B. Li, P. N. Segrè,
R. W. Gammon, and J. V. Sengers
Institute for Physical Science
and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
M. Lamvik
Division of Thermodynamics, Norwegian
Institute of Technology, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway
(Received 2 May 1994; accepted 25 May 1994)
We have developed a sensitive interferometric technique
for measuring the temperature derivative of the refractive
index of liquids with an accuracy of 0.5% as illustrated
by measurements with mixtures of liquid
n-hexane andtoluene. In addition the concentration
dependence of the refractive index of these
mixtures has been measured with refractometry. The
experimentally observed temperature dependence
of the refractive index appears to be consistent
with a modification of the Lorentz-Lorenz relation proposed by Looyenga.
J. Chem. Phys. 101,
5058 (1994)