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Experimental Methods, Results <strong>and</strong> Discussion<br />

Hales et al. (1974) measured the density of degassed samples of perfluorobenzene<br />

<strong>and</strong> perfluorotoluene by weighing with <strong>and</strong> without activation of a solenoid, which<br />

maintains a magnetically controlled float in the centre of the sample, according to a<br />

procedure described elsewhere (Hales et al, 1970). The densities measured for those<br />

compounds in the present work are in both cases systematically lower, by 1.2x10 -3 g/cm 3 ,<br />

than those measured by these authors.<br />

The effect of dissolved air on the density of perfluoro-n-hexane <strong>and</strong><br />

perfluorobenzene was studied by Dunlap et al. (1958) <strong>and</strong> Hales et al. (1974), respectively.<br />

In the case of perfluoro-n-hexane, densities of the degassed sample were about 2.0x10 -3<br />

g/cm 3 higher than those of the air saturated sample. In the case of perfluorobenzene,<br />

differences between degassed <strong>and</strong> air saturated samples were about 7.5x10 -4 g/cm 3 . Those<br />

differences are related with the solvent’s capacity to dissolve components of the air which<br />

is higher in the case of perfluoro-n-hexane (Dias et al., 2004; Evans et al., 1971). This<br />

observation cannot entirely justify the differences between density data measured in this<br />

work <strong>and</strong> literature data. In fact, differences observed for perfluorobenzene <strong>and</strong><br />

perfluorotoluene, around 1.2x10 -3 g/cm 3 , are higher than would be expected just from<br />

considering the effect of dissolved air in the sample. For perfluoro-n-hexane, data<br />

measured by Dunlap et al. (1958), for an air saturated sample, are lower than those<br />

obtained in this work. Also, the comparison between the data measured in this work <strong>and</strong><br />

reported by Piñeiro et al. (2004), seems to indicate that the methods used in both works are<br />

not very sensitive to differences between densities of degassed <strong>and</strong> air saturated samples.<br />

The different methods used to measure the densities are probably the main reason for the<br />

differences observed.<br />

I.2.4. Derived properties<br />

At the thermodynamic conditions used to measure density data in this work it is<br />

possible to calculate the isobaric thermal expansion coefficient αP along the saturation<br />

curve at 298.15 K, using Equation II.6. Values obtained for the fluorinated compounds<br />

studied in this work are reported in Table II.5.<br />

P<br />

T ⎟ 1 ⎛ ∂ρ<br />

⎞<br />

α = − ⎜<br />

ρ ⎝ ∂ ⎠<br />

P<br />

- 34 -<br />

(II.6)

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