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Powell and Eyring have shown that the form of the flow stress relation observed by us may be described by the addition of a second flow-process. Since this second process is postulated to involve weak bonds, it will be Newtonian on their theory.
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Tobolsky and Eyring, J. Chem. Phys., 11, 131 (1943).
Tobolsky and Eyring, J. Chem. Phys., 11, 128 (1943).
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ELEY, D., PEPPER, D. Mechanisms for the Relaxation Theory of Viscosity. Nature 154, 428 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154428a0
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