X-Message-Number: 3639
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS: Low Temperature Cryonics ERRATUM
From:  (Ben Best)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 20:53:00 -0500


   Minutes after having posting my "Low Temperature Cryonics Replies",
I realize that I made an error.

   At Tg there is a sudden increase in VISCOSITY (usually many orders
of magnitude), but there is no comparable sudden decrease in VOLUME.
In fact, Tg is characterized as a temperature-range where the rate of
decrease of volume decreases, although volume does continue to decrease
(and viscosity continues to increase) linearly below Tg. I still think
Tg could be a temperature critical to cracking because the sudden
increase in viscosity would be likely to affect heat conduction as well
as stress.

               -- Ben Best ()

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