We have measured isothermal homogeneous nucleation rates J for 1-pentanol vapor in two different carrier-gases, argon, and helium, using a two-valve nucleation pulse chamber. The nucleation rates cover a range of 10(5)<J/cm(-3) s(-1)<10(9) at temperatures between 235<T/K<265. We observed no influence of the carrier gas on location and slope of the nucleation rate isotherms. These measurements are part of an international effort to examine 1-pentanol using various experimental techniques, which was initiated in Prague in 1995. In the present paper nucleation rate data obtained by several groups are compared to each other and to the classical nucleation theory. As expected, the classical theory is not able to quantitatively predict the experimental results. Nevertheless, relating the experimental data to the classical theory provides a suitable way to compare data of widely differing nucleation rates obtained by different experimental techniques. This comparison helps judging mutual support of the data and, at the same time, provides a rather interesting insight into the accuracy of the individual experimental techniques.
(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics.