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Fick’s first law is the fundamental law of diffusion. It states that (eqn (1)) the flux in the x-direction (F x ) is proportional to the concentration gradient (∂c/∂x).
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Comyn, J. (1985). Introduction to Polymer Permeability and the Mathematics of Diffusion. In: Comyn, J. (eds) Polymer Permeability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4858-7_1
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