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A field study of the effectiveness of fatty alcohol mixtures as evaporation reducing monomolecular films
Author(s) -
Bean B. R.,
Florey Q. L.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr004i001p00206
Subject(s) - evaporation , alcohol , materials science , flux (metallurgy) , field (mathematics) , fatty alcohol , chemical engineering , chemistry , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , metallurgy , engineering , mathematics , physics , pure mathematics
A field study of the effectiveness of fatty alcohol mixtures as evaporation reducing monomolecular films was carried out at Lake Hefner, Oklahoma. Evaporation, as determined by the eddy flux method, was reduced, on the average, by 58%.