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DR. KANNULUIK used in the above measurement a method1 which was devised a few years ago for measuring the thermal conductivity of a gas and was used by him and Dr. Martin to measure its value for a number of gases. In it a thick electrically heated wire co-axial with a vertical metal tube, which contains the gas, is used. A wire of very pure platinum and an accurately lapped stainless steel tube were used in the experiment on deuterium described in the previous letter.
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G. W. Kannuluik, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 131, 320 (1931), and G. W. Kannuluik and L. H. Martin, ibid., A, 141, 144 (1933) and A, 144, 496 (1934).
T. H. Laby, ibid., A, 144, 494 (1934), and Hercus and Sutherland, ibid., A, 145, 599 (1934).
Awbery: article on Heat in ” Reports on Progress in Physics” vol. 2, 195 (1936).
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LABY, T. Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Gases. Nature 137, 741 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137741b0
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