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ACCORDING to Rama Rao1 an empirical relationship exists between the temperature coefficients of the velocity of sound (v) in organic liquids and their density ρ: where A is practically equal to 3 for unassociated compounds.
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SCHUYER, J. Molar Sound Velocity of Solids. Nature 181, 1394–1395 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811394b0
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