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Science 13 July 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4095, pp. 159 - 161
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4095.159
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Suspensions: Fluids with Fading Memories

A. Okagawa 1 and S. G. Mason 1

1 Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada and Department of Chemistry. McGill University, Montreal 101, Quebec, Canada

A sheared liquid suspension whose flow is reversed remembers with various degrees of perfection all earlier configurations of the particles. The memory effects, studied primarily because of their importance in suspension rheology, may be of wider significance.


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