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THE Institution of Petroleum Technologists is one of the most recent of our technological associations. Founded in 1913, to advance the study of mineral oils from the various points of view of the chemist, the geologist, the engineer, the prospector, and the financier, it has shown from the first a healthy vitality and the promise of'a vigorous future. At a general meeting held on November 16, at the Royal Society of Arts, the institution had the pleasure of listening to an illuminating address by Dr. Glazebrook on the viscosity of oils in relation to the rate of flow through pipes. The tests described had been undertaken at the request of the Admiralty, and permission had been given for their publication. The results of the investigation showed that the ordinary law of viscous flow, P/V = 2j)/9,g-d2, holds good in the particular case postulated so long as the critical velocity which is given in the expression pV) = 25oo is not exceeded.
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Viscosity of Oils . Nature 96, 439–440 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096439b0
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