Thermal Conductivity of Liquids

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Thermal Conductivity of Liquids

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This table gives the thermal conductivity of some common liquids at temperatures between -25 and 100 °C. All values are given in units of watts per meter kelvin (W/m K). Values refer to nominal atmospheric pressure (about 100 kPa); when an entry is given at a temperature above the normal boiling point of the substance, the pressure is understood to be the saturation vapor pressure at that temperature.

Substances are arranged by molecular formula in the modified Hill order, with compounds not containing carbon preceding those that do contain carbon.

The values for water, benzene, toluene, heptane, and dimethyl phthalate are particularly well determined and can be used for calibration purposes.

Molecular Thermal conductivity in W/m K

MF	Name	-25 ° C	0 ° C	25 ° C	50 ° C	75 ° C	100 ° C
Cl₄Si	Silicon tetrachloride	-	-	0.099	0.096	-	-
H₂O	Water	-	0.5610	0.6071	0.6435	0.6668	0.6791
Hg	Mercury	7.25	7.77	8.25	8.68	9.07	9.43
CCl ₄	Tetrachloromethane	-	0.104	0.099	0.093	0.088	-
CS ₂	Carbon disulfide	-	0.154	0.149	-	-	-
CHCl ₃	Trichloromethane	0.127	0.122	0.117	0.112	0.107	0.102
CH ₂ Br ₂	Dibromomethane	0.120	0.114	0.108	0.103	0.097	-
CH ₄ O	Methanol	0.214	0.207	0.200	0.193	-	-
C ₂ Cl ₄	Tetrachloroethylene	-	0.117	0.110	0.104	0.097	0.091
C ₂ HCl ₃	Trichloroethylene	0.133	0.124	0.116	0.108	0.100	-
C ₂ H ₃ Cl ₃	1,1,1-Trichloroethane	-	0.106	0.101	0.096	-	-
C ₂ H ₃ N	Acetonitrile	0.208	0.198	0.188	0.178	0.168	-
C ₂ H ₄ O ₂	Acetic acid	-	-	0.158	0.153	0.149	0.144
C ₂ H ₅ Cl	Chloroethane	0.145	0.132	0.119	0.106	0.093
C ₂ H ₅ NO	N -Methylformamide	-	-	0.203	0.201	0.199	0.196
C ₂ H ₆ O	Ethanol	-	0.176	0.169	0.162	-	-
C ₂ H ₆ O ₂	Ethylene glycol	-	0.256	0.256	0.256	0.256	0.256
C ₂ H ₇ NO	Ethanolamine	-	-	0.299	0.286	0.274	0.261
C ₃ H ₅ C_lO	Epichlorohydrin	0.142	0.137	0.131	0.125	0.119	0.114
C ₃ H ₆ O	Acetone	-	0.169	0.161	-	-	-
C ₃ H ₆ O ₂	Methyl acetate	0.174	0.164	0.153	0.143	0.133	0.122
C ₃ H ₇ NO	N,N -Dimethylformamide	-	-	0.184	0.178	0.171	0.165
C ₃ H ₈ O	1-Propanol	0.162	0.158	0.154	0.149	0.145	0.141
C ₃ H ₈ O	2-Propanol	0.146	0.141	0.135	0.129	0.124	0.118
C ₃ H ₈ O ₂	1,2-Propanediol	-	0.202	0.200	0.199	0.198	0.197
C ₃ H ₈ O ₃	Glycerol	-	-	0.292	0.295	0.297	0.300
C ₃ H ₉ N	Trimethylamine	0.143	0.133	-	-	-	-
C ₄ H ₄ O	Furan	0.142	0.134	0.126	-	-	-
C ₄ H ₄ S	Thiophene	-	-	0.199	0.195	0.191	0.186
C ₄ H ₆	2-Butyne	0.137	0.129	0.121	-	-	-
C ₄ H ₈ O	2-Butanone	0.158	0.151	0.145	0.139	0.133	-
C ₄H ₈ O	Tetrahydrofuran	0.132	0.126	0.120	0.114	-	-
C ₄ H ₈ O ₂	1,4-Dioxane	-	-	0.159	0.147	0.135	0.123
C ₄ H ₈ O ₂	Ethyl acetate	0.162	0.153	0.144	0.135	0.126	-
C ₄ H ₁₀ O	1-Butanol	-	0.158	0.154	0.149	-	-
C ₄ H ₁₀ O	Diethyl ether	0.150	0.140	0.130	0.120	0.110	0.100
C ₅ H ₅ N	Pyridine	-	0.169	0.165	0.161	0.158	-
C ₅ H ₈	Cyclopentene	0.143	0.136	0.129	-	-	-
C ₅ H ₁₀	1-Pentene	0.131	0.124	0.116	-	-	-
C ₅ H ₁₀	Cyclopentane	0.140	0.133	0.126	-	-	-
C ₅ H ₁₂	Pentane	0.132	0.122	0.113	0.103	0.095	0.087
C ₅ H ₁₂ O	1-Pentanol	-	0.157	0.153	0.149	0.145	-
C ₆ H ₅ Cl	Chlorobenzene	0.136	0.131	0.127	0.122	0.117	0.112

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