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IN experiments which I carried out in the summer of 1951, mercury flowing in a long narrow rectangular channel at a Reynolds number R entered a region of constant transverse magnetic field H. The pressure gradient was measured downstream of any entrance effects.
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MURGATROYD, W. Damping of Turbulence by a Magnetic Field. Nature 171, 217 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171217a0
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