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Mechanism of convective instability of a binary mixture

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Even a very slow background vertical motion can strongly affect convection in a stratified fluid. A previously unknown mechanism of convective instability is demonstrated for a binary mixture in the flow field of such motion.

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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. 128, No. 1, 2005, pp. 179–182.

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Ingel, L.K. Mechanism of convective instability of a binary mixture. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 101, 156–159 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.2010671

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