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A Dunking Bird Of The Second Kind, Nadine Abraham, Peter Palffy-Muhoray May 2004

A Dunking Bird Of The Second Kind, Nadine Abraham, Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Peter Palffy-Muhoray

The conventional dunking bird is a heat engine that relies on the temperature difference between the head and the tail of the bird for its operation. We describe a new type of dunking bird that is not a heat engine, but one that directly uses the chemical potential difference between liquid water and its vapor.