An equation to describe the rate of setting of blood and milk

Abstract

An equation is proposed to describe the rate of setting (i.e. rate of increase of rigidity) of both blood and milk gels under certain limited conditions. This equation is the third of a series whose first and second members represent an exponential and a power-relation respectively. The more obvious use of a logistic type of equation does not fit the experimental data. The molecular processes underlying the new equation are not yet understood and the treatment must be regarded as phenomenological, though not altogether empirical, since the equation fits the data best when independently determined time zeros are used, both for blood and for milk.