The Liquid State and Its Electrical Properties
Abstract
As the various disciplines of science advance, they proliferate and tend to become more esoteric. Barriers of specialized terminologies form, which cause scientists to lose contact with their colleagues, and differences in point-of-view emerge which hinder the unification of knowledge among the various disciplines, and even within a given discipline. As a result, the scientist, and especially the student, is in many instances offered fragmented glimpses of subjects that are fundamentally synthetic and that should be treated in their own right. Such seems to be the case of the liquid state. Unlike the other states of matter -- gases, solids, and plasmas -- the liquid state has not yet received unified treatment, probably because it has been the least explored and remains the least understood state of manner. Advances in computational power and diagnostic techniques are increasingly leading to fascinating new results on the basic properties of liquids and the physio-chemical interactions occurring in the liquid phase. Such an understanding will undoubtedly open up new technological applications of the liquid state, and the Sintra ASI was just the right stimulation needed for the seventy-odd scientists and engineers in attendance. (rrh)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA215061