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The time required for a volumetrically defined amount of fluid (the volume between two marks on the tube of the viscometer) to flow through a capillary of a defined length is measured.

Definition:

1 square meter per second is the kinematic viscosity of a homogenous fluid with a dynamic viscosity of 1 Pa × s and a density 1 kg/m³.

The unit for expressing kinematic viscosity (the relationship of viscosity to density = viscoplasticity) is 1 m²/s = 10⁶ mm²/s

Capillary viscometers measure the kinematic viscosity of Newtonian fluids, unlike falling ball and the rotational viscometers, which directly measure the dynamic viscosity. However, with values for the kinematic viscosity and the density of the test liquid, the dynamic viscosity can be calculated.

The time required for a volumetrically defined amount of fluid (the volume between two marks on the tube of the viscometer) to flow through a capillary of a defined length is measured.

1 square meter per second of a homogenous fluid with a dynamic viscosity of 1 Pa × s and a density 1 kg/m³

The unit for expressing kinematic viscosity (the relationship of viscosity to density = viscoplasticity) is 1 m²/s = 10⁶ mm²/s

The kinematic viscosity is expressed as 1 square meter per second of a homogenous fluid with a dynamic viscosity of 1 Pa × s and a density 1 kg/m³.

The amount of time required for a special ball to fall while sinking through a glass tube filled with a sample liquid between two marks is measured. The precision of this method is increased if the time is measured using a photoelectric beam to an accuracy of 0.01 s, rather than manually with a stopwatch.

These devices measure the torque transferred through a cylindrical liquid layer between a stationary and a rotating disc. This method also allows changes in viscosity, which occur, e.g., through the action of α-amylase on starch, to be automatically recorded by a plotter or PC.