A new L-type viscometer,the resuit of the improvement of viscometer L-1, is described. This instrument not only retains the advantage of viscometer L-1 s obtaining the apparent viscosity of non-Newtonian fluid as a function of shear rater covering a certain range by a single test, but can work efficiently when the shea: rate of the specimen is too low for apparent svicosity to be measured with conventional viscometers. Besides, it only needs less than 2mL of specimen for a test.