Activation Energy for Electronic Conduction in Simple Fluids
- 10 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (24) , 2320-2322
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.2320
Abstract
The activation energy for thermally generating conduction electrons in fluids such as Hg, Cs, and Rb decreases with increasing fluid density and eventually vanishes resulting in a transition to semimetallic behavior. A dominant contribution to this evolution is held to be the cohesion within thermally generated positive molecular ions.Keywords
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