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Thermal Diffusion with Ammonia

W. W. Watson and D. Woernley

  • Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Phys. Rev. 63, 181 – Published 1 March, 1943

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.63.181

Abstract

With a "two-bulb" thermal diffusion experiment in which is used NH3 having about a 15 percent N15 content to increase the accuracy of the mass spectrometer analyses, it has been found that with decreasing temperature the thermal diffusion constant α of ammonia changes from + to - values at about room temperature. The value of α varies linearly with the logarithm of the absolute temperature, the rate of decrease being, however, nearly eight times that for neon and argon. A qualitative discussion is presented, attributing this effect largely to the strong first-order dipole-dipole intermolecular forces which are proportional to 1R4.

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