Phase Diagrams of Binary Systems of Some Alkali Propionates
Abstract
The phase diagrams of the binary systems sodium-potassium, sodium-caesium, and potassium-caesium propionates have been investigated by differential thermal analysis and hot-stage polarization microscopy. Smectic liquid crystals in the systems with sodium propionate have been discovered. Liquid crystal formation in binaries of two non-mesomorphic components is explained by latent mesomorphism which is shown to be inherent to both sodium and potassium propionate.
- Publication:
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Zeitschrift Naturforschung Teil A
- Pub Date:
- October 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1515/zna-1993-1006
- Bibcode:
- 1993ZNatA..48..995M