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Light transmission measurements performed in SF6 close to its liquid–gas critical point are used to obtain turbidity data in the reduced temperature range \({\frac{T-T_{\rm c}}{T_{\rm c}}=[1.6\times10^{-7}{-}1.6\times10^{-3}]}\) (T is temperature, T c is the critical temperature). Automatic experiments (ALICE 2 facility) were made at a near critical density, i.e., \({\frac{\left\langle \rho\right\rangle -\rho_{\rm c}}{\rho_{\rm c}}=0.8\,\%}\), in the one-phase homogeneous region, under the microgravity environment of the Mir Space Station (\({\left\langle \rho\right\rangle}\) is the average density, ρ c is the critical density). The turbidity data analysis verifies the theoretical crossover formulations for the isothermal compressibility \({\kappa_{T}}\) and the correlation length ξ. These latter formulations are also used to analyze very near T c thermal diffusivity data obtained under microgravity conditions by Wilkinson et al. (Phys. Rev. E 57 436, 1998).
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Lecoutre, C., Garrabos, Y., Georgin, E. et al. Turbidity Data of Weightless SF6 Near its Liquid–Gas Critical Point. Int J Thermophys 30, 810–832 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-009-0582-6
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