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It is shown that the intensification of a stabilizing buoyancy flux directed from the surface to the bulk of a binary mixture (e.g., salt water) may give rise to convective instability.
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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 122, No. 5, 2002, pp. 1019–1021.
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Ingel, L.K. Convective instability mechanism for a binary mixture heated from above. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 95, 878–880 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1528679
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