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DENSITY
Table of Contents
Physical
& Chemical Properties
Density is the mass of a unit volume of a substance. Oil density is
used to determine the mass of a given volume, or the volume of a given
mass. Density is used in lubrication to identify an oil, or oil fractions,
and in the measurement of kinematic viscosity (absolute viscosity
divided by density). Also, density is in the equations for the calculation
of temperature rise in an oil film, and the equation for Reynolds
Number (which determines if flow of an oil film is laminar (smooth
layers) or turbulent (tumbling).
The SI unit for density is kg m-3, but usually reported as grams/ml
(g/ml-1). For example, an oil could be 850 kg m-3 or 0.850 g ml-1.
The density of mineral oil lubricants varies from 0.86 to 0.98 g ml-1
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