“…Furthermore, we took the same approach of dealing with the most common impurity in PEGs, i.e., water, as was done in this prior study of ethylene glycol oligomers, which is to inspect the dependence of the physical properties on known varying water contents. The physical property values of neat PEG are then obtained from extrapolations to zero water content . We note that while densities − and viscosities − ,− ,,,− ,,− of PEG200 have been reported numerous times, only few of these investigations stated the water content in PEG. ,,,, As we will show, the effect of present water on the reported physical properties is nearly absent for water mole fractions of up to 0.15.…”