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Viscosity

Poirier [1988] showed that there is a linear relation between activation energy for viscosity of liquid metals and their value of . This leads to the result that the viscosity at the melting point is independent of pressure. Thus the viscosity of iron at the ICB should be about equal to the viscosity at room pressure, , or about .

Acknowledgments. I thank Stanislav Braginsky and Paul Roberts for permitting me to see their manuscript before publication and for their suggestions. I am grateful to Jean-Paul Poirier, Frank Stacey, and two unknown reviewers for comments on an early version of the typescript. I thank Dave Young for help in finding the freezing point depression from impurities. I am grateful to Tom Ahrens for sending information on his revised measurements of . I thank Don Isaak for his calculations of of fcc iron. This study was made possible by a collaborative IGPP (LANL, LLNL, and UCLA) effort of T.J. Shankland, Al Duba, and myself over five years, resulting in the two ironworkers conventions, the joint IGPP publication called, ``The Physics of Iron,'' and the two papers referenced to Duba. I am indebted to Charles Alcock, who provided support for the writing of this study through the IGPP at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) under the University Collaborative Research Program project # 93--11 under contract W--7405--ENG--48 of the Department of Energy. IGPP-UCLA paper no. 4205



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