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    • Data to accompany the paper "Entropy Scaling of Viscosity -- II: Predictive Scheme for Normal Alkanes"

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    Viscosity data for normal alkanes (methane, ethane, etc.) taken from the literature to accompany the paper "Entropy Scaling of Viscosity -- II: Predictive Scheme for Normal Alkanes". The data were obtained from an internal version of the NIST ThermoDataEngine database version 10.4.2. File contents include

    Contents

    • MIDAS_alkanes.csv: The data file containing all the data considered in this study

    • MIDAS_alkanes.bib: The bibliography associated with each datasource in BibTeX format

    • allbibs.pdf: A PDF conversion of the bibliography

    Data File format ##

    • The data are in a comma-separated text format, with the column headings indicating the contents of the column, along with units, where appropriate

    • The phase indicates how the data were measured "L" indicates a liquid phase, "G" a gas phase, "G L" a saturated vapor, and "L G" a saturated liquid

    • For saturated states ("G L" or "L G"), the saturation temperature fully specifies the state

    • For liquid and gaseous states, either the temperature and pressure or temperature and density are provided, and the unused state variable is empty

    • Fluid names match the default names of the compound from NIST REFPROP library

    • The column "TRC_code" indicates the reference code for the data point, and the same references (with spaces and & replaced with hyphens) are used as keys in the BibTeX file

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 19, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 19, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Maintainer
    Identifier ark:/88434/mds2-2289
    Data First Published 2020-08-14
    Language en
    Data Last Modified 2020-08-13 00:00:00
    Category Energy, Physics:Thermodynamics, Physics:Condensed matter
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 006:55
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    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-2289
    License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
    Program Code 006:045
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 45c78963d19a428b3b214d5010a551a916e9540f33d6256ad9cc9c9af68b0605
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