from different groups and supplemented by new measurements. The main quantity of
interest is the “minimum slope” of the α dielectric loss plotted as a function of frequency in a
log-log plot, ie, the numerically largest slope above the loss peak frequency. The data
consisting of 347 spectra for 53 liquids show prevalence of minimum slopes close to− 1/2,
corresponding to approximate t dependence of the dielectric relaxation function at short …