Instrument description
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3.3.3. Symbols
Quantities
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Shear rate (1/s)
Dynamic medium viscosity (mPas; 1 Poise = 100 mPas).
Orientation angle.
Shear stress (Pa; 1 Dyne/cm2 = 0.1 Pa).
Isc
Back-scatter intensity (au = arbitrary units).
I
Intensity parameter resulting from curve fit.
Units
au Arbitrary units.
s
Time, seconds.
Pa Shear stress, Pascal (1 Pa = 10 Dynes/cm2).
mPa.s Dynamic viscosity (1 mPa.s = 1 cP (centi-Poise)).
mm Distance, millimeter.
°C Temperature, degrees Centigrade.
Elongation parameters
A Vertical axis of diffraction pattern (pixels)
B
Horizontal axis of diffraction pattern (pixels).
EI Elongation Index (1).
R Image aspect ratio (%).
Eof
Error of fit (au), average distance of the edge pixels to the best-fit
ellipse.
Aggregation parameters
Isc dis Back-scatter intensity during disaggregation phase (au).
Upstroke
Height of syllectogram upstroke (au).
Isc top Back-scatter intensity of syllectogram peak (au).