AbstractThe weighted intrinsic viscosities of polysaccharide mixtures in dilute aqueous solutions have been studied. The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate that average intrinsic viscosities would scale with the weight fraction of the individual components for polysaccharide mixtures in 0.5NNaOH(aq). The polysaccharides examined in this study were composed of polymers differing in their molecular weights, degree of branching, and bond linkages. Excellent agreement between theory and experiment was observed for the three different mixed polymer systems examined. This observation validates certain aspects of proposed theoretical treatments which employ this fundamental assumption and allows for further advances in experimental analytical developments of water‐soluble polymer system
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