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ALTHOUGH thermal diffusion in condensed systems has been used experimentally for bringing about difficult separations, for example, in the Clusius and Dickel apparatus, and although considerable advances have been made recently in the descriptive treatment of the effect by Prof. S. R. de Groot1 at Utrecht and Prof. Prigogine2 at Brussels, experimental data by which theories of the Soret effect may be checked are still meagre.
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TANNER, C. The Soret Effect. Nature 170, 34–35 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170034a0
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