Results :

Temperature = (28 30 1)C

R= 8.31 JK-1 mol-1
Table 1 : Surface tension value, of a range of aliphatic alcohol with various chain
length
Sample
Distilled water
Methyl alcohol (0.10M)
Ethyl alcohol (0.10)
N-propyl alcohol (0.10M)
N-butyl alcohol (0.10M)
N-amyl alcohol (0.10M)

Number of
carbon atoms
0
1
2
3
4
5

Surface tension, ( 0.0005 ) Nm-1

1
2
3
Average
0.0715
0.0725
0.0715
0.0718
0.0695
0.0695
0.0705
0.0698
0.0695
0.0695
0.0685
0.0692
0.0660
0.0660
0.0655
0.0658
0.0565
0.0560
0.0555
0.0560
0.0420
0.0425
0.0425
0.0423

Table 2 : Surface tension value, of n-amyl alcohol with different concentration, as

well as (d/d ln c) and values correspond with different n-amyl alcohol
concentration.
N-amyl alcohol
concentration,
c /mol dm-3
0.01
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.10
0.15
0.18
0.20

ln c

Surface tension, ( 0.0001 ) Nm-1

1

Average

0.0690
0.0675
0.0650
0.0615
0.0590
0.0420
0.0355
0.0335
0.0315

0.0680
0.0675
0.0650
0.0620
0.0590
0.0425
0.0360
0.0325
0.0315

0.0680
0.0680
0.0650
0.0615
0.0595
0.0425
0.0365
0.0340
0.0320

0.0683
0.0677
0.0650
0.0617
0.0592
0.0423
0.0360
0.0333
0.0317

d/dlnC
(10-3)

mol m-2

Table 3 : Surface tension value, of t- butyl alcohol with different concentration, as well
as (d/d ln c) and values correspond with different t-butyl alcohol
concentration.
t-butyl
concentration,
c / mol dm-3

ln c

Surface tension, ( 0.0001 ) Nm-1

1
0.0715
0.0710
0.0705
0.0705
0.0695
0.0695
0.0640

2
0.0710
0.0710
0.0710
0.0705
0.0700
0.0700
0.0640

3
0.0720
0.0715
0.0700
0.0690
0.0690
0.0700
0.0650

Average
0.0715
0.0712
0.0707
0.0700
0.0695
0.0698
0.0643

d/dlnC
(10-3)

mol m-2