The electrical conductivity of benzene and its monohalide derivatives in an ultrasonic field

Ultrasonics has found increasing use in instrumentation techniques in recent years as a means of studying the physicochemical properties of materials and articles, and also as a means of accelerating technological processes in various branches of the national economy. At the same time not enough use is made of the possibilities of ultrasonics in many branches of science and technology. These include the study of the effect of ultrasonics on the electrical conductivity of electrolytes, liquid semiconductors, and dielectrics. Available published information on these topics 1 – 5] is scant; the effects observed have been described only qualitatively and need further study.The present paper is devoted to a study of the effect of ultrasonic vibrations (frequency 1.25 Mc, intensity 2 W/cm²) on the electrical conductivity of benzene in an electric field of 5 kV/cm, and on the electrical conductivity of chlorobenzene, bromobenzene, and iodobenzene in a field of 1 kV/cm in the precavitation region. An interpretation of the experimental results is offered.