Inherent viscosity

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Inherent viscosity is the ratio of the natural logarithm of the relative viscosity to the mass concentration of the polymer.^[1]

Inherent viscosity is defined as ^[2]

$\eta _{{inh}}={\frac {\ln \eta _{{rel}}}{c}}$

where c is the mass concentration of the polymer (g/dL) and $\eta _{{rel}}$ is the relative viscosity, which is defined as

$\eta _{{rel}}={\frac {\eta }{\eta _{{0}}}}$ where $\eta$ is the viscosity of the solution and $\eta _{0}$ is the viscosity of the neat solvent.

The unit of inherent viscosity is dL/g.

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