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Conduction in Poor Electronic Conductors

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IN an early paper on the “Heat Motion in Solids and Liquids”1 I have shown that in the case of ionic crystals the conduction of electricity must be due not only to the dissociated ions, but also to the holes left in the crystal lattice by the removal of these ions, and behaving exactly like movable ions of the opposite sign.

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  1. Z. Phys., 1926.

  2. Proc. Roy. Soc., June, 1933.

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  1. Physico-Technical Institute, Leningrad

    J. FRENKEL

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FRENKEL, J. Conduction in Poor Electronic Conductors. Nature 132, 312–313 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132312a0

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