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Thermal diffusion separation of isotopes in solutions

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The thermal diffusion constant is determined for potassium isotopes in an aqueous solution of potassium iodide. Variants of the organization of the thermal diffusion separation process in solutions are discussed.

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  1. A. V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    G. D. Rabinovich, V. I. Shinkevich & K. K. Azroyan

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  1. G. D. Rabinovich
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 76–82, July, 1979.

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Rabinovich, G.D., Shinkevich, V.I. & Azroyan, K.K. Thermal diffusion separation of isotopes in solutions. Journal of Engineering Physics 37, 808–812 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00861315

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