Universality of the temperature‐independent viscosity characteristic of polymer melts and some of its consequences

Abstract

It is shown that some results of recent publications (of Longworth and Piesky and of Bartoš) can be treated as particular consequences of the principle of universality of temperature‐independent viscosity characteristics of polymer melts, earlier found by these authors. This concerns the method of determination of molecular weight by means of melt index measuring and supposition that the definite value of apparent viscosity to initial Newtonian viscosity ratio can be considered to be a criterion of elastic turbulent flow emerging.