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A Theoretical Study Of The Mechanism For The Haeffner Effect, David Charles Jacobs
A Theoretical Study Of The Mechanism For The Haeffner Effect, David Charles Jacobs
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"In 1953, E. Haeffner reported that when he had passed a direct electric current through a length of capillary filled with liquid mercury, the lighter mercury isotopes were enriched at the positive terminal and the heavier mercury isotopes were enriched at the negative terminal. This phenomenon is referred to as the Haeffner Effect. Since Haeffner’s original experiment, other investigators have obtained similar results in other liquid metal systems.
When a direct electric current passes through a metallic conductor a free energy gradient is established. The direction of the negative free energy gradient is in the direction of the positive terminal. …