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7.6. Relaxational contributions 135<br />

dlog / dlog T<br />

10<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

prediction<br />

glycerol<br />

tpp<br />

m−toluidiene<br />

otp<br />

pib<br />

B 2<br />

O 3<br />

DHIQ<br />

cumene<br />

DBP<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0 50 100 150<br />

m P<br />

Figure 7.14:<br />

∂ log〈u 2 〉<br />

∂ log T<br />

∣ as a function of isobaric fragility. The line shows the predic-<br />

P<br />

tion of the elastic model (equation 7.5.6). .<br />

scatter in the data points is too large for us to draw any conclusions on this basis. In<br />

glycerol it has been observed that the fragility increases with pressure [Cook et al.,<br />

1994; Paluch et al., 2002]. This should mean a larger temperature dependence of<br />

〈u 2 〉 above T g . This is not seen in figure 7.12. But the expected change is again very<br />

small compared to the precision of the data.<br />

/ (T g<br />

)<br />

4<br />

3<br />

2<br />

1<br />

DHIQ<br />

Glycerol<br />

0<br />

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4<br />

T/T g<br />

Figure 7.15: 〈u 2 〉 scaled to 〈u 2 〉 Tg for the most fragile sample, DHIQ, and the least<br />

fragile sample, glycerol. The temperature is scaled to T g .<br />

7.6 Relaxational contributions<br />

The elastic model is based on the idea that the barrier height is related to curvature<br />

of the harmonic potential, and the decreasing barrier height above T g is rationalized

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