Role of Thermal Diffusion in the Electrolytic Separation of Isotopes in Liquid Metals

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Abstract
From the principles of irreversible thermodynamics and the known properties of metals it is inferred that there is a contribution to the Haeffner effect isotope separations arising from the isothermal heat flux accompanying the current flow. The magnitude of this contribution is estimated to be a significant fraction of the observed effect, but of opposite sign.