Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress.
The cgs physical unit for dynamic viscosity is the poise (P), more commonly expressed, particularly in ASTM standards, as centipoise (cP)
Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensional stress. In everyday terms (and for fluids only), viscosity is “thickness”. Thus, water is “thin”, having a lower viscosity, while honey is “thick”, having a higher viscosity.
Viscosity describes a fluid’s internal resistance to flow and may be thought of as a measure of fluid friction. See Newton’ expression: the constant μ is known as the coefficient of viscosity, the viscosity, the dynamic viscosity, or the Newtonian viscosity.
Generalized Relation Between Surface Tension and Viscosity: a Study on Pure and Mixed n-alkanes. A. J. Queimada, I. M. Marrucho , E. H. Stenby, J. A. P. Coutinho. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, June 22-27, 2003, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Both for pure compounds and mixtures.