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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The viscoelastic behavior of solutions of a narrow molecular weight distribution polystyrene in tri‐m‐toly 1 phosphate has been determined from the glassy to the terminal zones of response. The polymer concentration was varied from one to 100% thereby providing for the first time a complete picture of the influence of a solvent on the time‐dependent response of a polymer.</jats:p><jats:p>A computer analysis, governed by human judgment, has been used to extract retardation spectra which can be used to regenerate the reduced recoverable creep compliance curves within the scatter bands of the data. With the resulting retardation spectra, dynamic compliance and moduli curves have been calculated.</jats:p>