why does temperature change affect viscosity of oil?

Subject: why does temperature change affect viscosity of oil?

Date: Wed Oct 4 22:33:12 2000
Posted by Anika
Grade level: 7-9 School: Murdoch
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Australia
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 970713192.Eg

Message:


I'm doing an experiment and testing oil flow rate at different 
temperatures.  Oil flows faster at higher temperatures and I think this is 
because of it's viscosity changing but why does this happen?  What is 
happening to the molecules in the oil?

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