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IN the course of a research on the heating effects of radiation of wave-lengths 10 to 200 metres, it was found that for a given wave-length there is a maximum heating effect produced in a medium the specific conductivity and dielectric constant of which are connected with the frequency by a simple law. This law, proved theoretically as well as shown experimentally to hold for dilute solutions, is 2c/nD = 1, where c = specific conductivity in absolute units, D = dielectric constant, and n = frequency of wave. This law accounts for the curious selective heating effects observed in such high frequency fields, which give promise of great application in medical science.
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MCLENNAN, J., BURTON, A. Method of Obtaining a Visible Spectrum of Waves of Radio Frequency. Nature 126, 130 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126130a0
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