Abstract
THE abnormally high heat conductivity of helium II below the λ-point, as first observed by Keesom, suggested to me the possibility of an explanation in terms of convection currents. This explanation would require helium II to have an abnormally low viscosity; at present, the only viscosity measurements on liquid helium have been made in Toronto1, and showed that there is a drop in viscosity below the λ-point by a factor of 3 compared with liquid helium at normal pressure, and by a factor of 8 compared with the value just above the λ-point. In these experiments, however, no check was made to ensure that the motion was laminar, and not turbulent.
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Burton, NATURE, 135, 265 (1935); Wilhelm, Misener and Clark, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 151, 342 (1935).
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NATURE, 140, 62 (1937).
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Institute for Physical Problems, Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Dec. 3.
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