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Viscosity tends to increase as temperature drops in most liquids because the kinetic

energy of the molecules reduces. This allows the intermolecular forces to get molecules attracted giving the fluid more resistance to flow.

Interesting though, in gases at low pressure viscosity increases with T1/2, where T is

the thermodynamic temperature.

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