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IT was a signal contribution to the chance of an experimental test of the Fermi-Dirac statistics when Bloch1 included the interaction of the electrons and the lattice in the representation of a metal. This representation is much nearer to actual metals than an abstraction such as a free electron gas. Fortunately, the theory leads to a paramagnetism of the metal electrons, which does not differ radically from the paramagnetism of free electrons, approximating the latter as the binding between the positive ions and electrons becomes weaker.
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L. Farkas (Z. phys. Chem., A, 161, 355; 1932) has made a theoretical study of these conductivities.
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FREED, S., THODE, H. A Magnetic Study of the Metallic State and the Fermi-Dirac Statistics. Nature 134, 774–775 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134774a0
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