Callibration of capillaries for density measurement of supercooled water

Abstract

Density of supercooled water at elevated pressure is interesting because of the strong anomalies which can be explained by existence of a liquid-liquid critical point in the region of supercooled water. In order to provide accurate data for density at these conditions a procedure was developed to calibrate the course of the inner cross section of a capillary along its length. Further, the image analysis for the sub-pixel evaluation of meniscus postion is described.